Greater Than Its Parts [xLg]At times I’ve been guilty of throwing a frame around a group of shapes, or a textured surface that may look like a Jackson Pollock painting. That’s not creating abstraction. I put such images in my Graphic Composition Gallery. ‘Found art’ may have the look of an abstract, but has little metaphysical quality to it.
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Sis-Boom-Bah [xLg]
Bamboo Blizzard [Lg]
Yellow Bag [xLg]
Boy’s And Girl’s [xLg]
Rain Bonnet [xLg]
The Wet Continued [xLg]
Light Precipitation [xLg]
Road Splash [xLg]
Yellow Splash [xLg]
Red Car Splash [xLg]
Waterfall Wall [xLg]
Aromatic Remnants [xLg]
Aromatics [Lg]
Hunter And Prey [xLg]
Eyes Noses And Mouth [pan]
Orbital [xLg]
Wire Weave [xLg]
Twisted #2 [xLg]
Twisted #6 [xLg]
Twisted 7 [xLg]
Blind Sided [xLg]
My Bent [xLg]
Criss Cross [xLg]
Recycled [xLg]
Count The Colors [xLg]
Concentrics [xLg]
Where’s Waldo [xLg]
Hula [xLg]
Amalgum [xLg]
Drum #6 [xLg]
River Bed [Med]
Fabric Of Space 2 [xLg]
Fabric Of Space 1 [xLg]
Wired 3 [xLg]
Wired 1 [xLg]
Tattoos Of Light [xLg]
Window View [xLg]
Wall Mushroom [xLg]
Acid Rain [xLg]
Rose Green [xLg]
Scissor Dance 2 [xLg]
Lost Buoy [Lg]
Field Stove [xLg]
Bubble Under [xLg]
Lion And Buffalo [xLg]
John Waters [xLg]
Water Daemon [xLg]
Santa [xLg]
Face In The Foam [xLg]
Scratchy Cat [Med]
Moth In The Belly [Med]
An Attempt To Blend In [Med]
Lionfish In The Belly [Med]
Fox In The Belly [Med]
Baby Elephants [Lg]
Shimmer Walk [xLg]
Look Both Ways[Med]
A definition of the photo abstract, I think.
A photograph is a visual moment – representative, suggestive, but to be truly abstract [a metaphysical expression, as a composite of its parts] a photograph must be manipulated.
The simplest photo abstraction would be a manipulation of focus. A blurry photo is metaphysical because it’s suggestive of what is not clearly shown. The blur itself is manipulation – and within my definition of abstraction.
To express it simply, my approach to abstraction is to add and subtract multiple layers of shape, texture, and color in imagery. I can deconstruct reality, accentuate the metaphysical, suggest another visual scenario, or simply play around with graphic design and color study. The result of what I do, I think, is a painterly abstraction of the subject in a photographic medium.
