Friday, February 4, 2011

Wind II - The other side





So I have decided that Lethbridge is just too windy. The worst thing is that I can not do anything with the wind. I can capture the effects of wind, but what does wind look like? Its painfuly annyoing when you cant make art out of something. I can't seem to post video and photos together, but the youtube link belongs with this. I saw the lovely shadows with the wind and steam from something at the Univeristy so I decided that a photo wasnt good enough to capture it, and I was going to take a video of the other side of the hill too, to see the grass and wind without the steam shawdow, but it was really muddy and I slipped trying to go there, so now I have a dirty camera water bottle and shoes. I also got thorns in my hand, but it wasnt the nice big ones that photograph well. I was just reading on performace and ritual, where pain is present, and it didnt do me any good. No audiance. Isnt that nice?
Art is futile so why not purseue the unachivable with it? Makes sensce to me anyways. Its like the wind, you can keep chasing it but you can never catch it. Somehting like that anyways.

Wind

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Let There Be













I do give the impressionists credit for trying, but you cant paint light. Painting the effects of light is quite possible, but light in its purest form is light. My photos are not to be printed, the images must be displayed on a screen or projected. I am working on the photos, I do not want black and white, that would deaden the images, but I do want muted tones, like a tinted black and white photograph. I am still working on composition, it is so complicated to get a good image. I want something a bit unsettling perhaps the feeling of being tilted out of the image. Strong, bold images are good, I want to keep it clean and simple.