painting and photographic works

Archive for October, 2022

Bending Space and Light to See the Unimaginable

I was doing some experimentation with transforming an image. In this case, I found a simple photo of light shining through some blinds onto my kitchen floor to be interesting – but not that interesting. However I thought that there might be something there, so I played around with the image on my phone, primarily manipulating it in various ways using the Tiny Planet app. I came up with a variety of compositions that I think are quite intriguing.

The original mundane snapshot

And visual variations after different digital manipulations:

I like the way these camera apps can let me see differently, to envision compositions that I couldn’t have imagined and which could be quite successful as references or inspiration for paintings.


The Best of My Summer 2022 Photos

Here are some of my favorite photos (in a variety of styles) taken in July, August and early-September of 2022, in the Edmonton’s: river valley:

Edmonton’s Muttart Conservatory with downtown skyline (Aug 2022).

Flowers of summer:

Here are some favorite black and white or monochrome photos:

In early August I captured some interesting geometric abstracts mostly from at MacEwan University:

and in an abstract vein, using Intentional Camera Movement:

And a few more nature-y images from late summer:

Finally a monochrome photo of Dawson Bridge, with a late-summer evening haze: