The brain is always searching for recognizable patterns, it wants to make sense of what’s presented to it.
When working with abstract materials, what I do is help my brain uncover the obscure and bring it forward.
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I’ve been asked what exactly are these images. these are manipulated photograph I shot, of smoke. i alter colors and draw on them, with digital tools. Here’s a new image, followed by a small copy of the original shot, notice the figure on the lower left.
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Scribbling in smoke
In a field where pre-planning is very important, sometimes, to free my mind, I like to take a pencil and scribble on paper, without raising it for a few moments from the page, and then with as little lines possible, to get out of the chaos a subject that will make sense.
As many in the visual field, I have a library of photographs I shoot, to use them as backgrounds or effects. While looking through some of my smoke images, I noticed a lot of scribbles there to work with.
I use free association doing that, and I find it to be very rewarding.
This porcelain hare was shot in its natural environment, porcelain hares are a very timid animal, especially scared of curious little hands with slippery fingers.
Shooting shiny objects is always a challenge and that’s one of the reasons I like doing it.
Here’s a little mechanical celluloid toy. Its pose made it a natural candidate to challenge Superman.
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As a little boy, there were many things I thought I wanted to be, at least for a while. One thing I was playing with was ventriloquism, people who “throw their voice”, the concept intrigued me, I wanted to be able to do that too. I wanted a dummy too, I didn’t get one, and that’s a good thing.
The type the ventriloquist dummy in the image above is called Charlie McCarthy, and I’m happy I had the opportunity to shoot it.
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Abandoned
This mechanical toy was originally dressed and could crawl, not anymore. It looks to me as if it’s trying to reach out, sadly enough it doesn’t look like something you’d want to hold, that sense is what I went after.