New Work: a start

I read Sol LeWitt's "Sentences on Conceptual Art" and found them to be basic logic principles for the field of art.  They are like those laid down by Euclid many years before (science and art are much more connected in their operation than most think) that set forth the rules of geometry in that they provide a hierarchy of knowledge so that one can create.  I think the key to take away from these sentences is not that they are hard-bound rules to live by but that one can make his or her own logic principles, and should so that he can become conscious and in control of the creative process.

The current "concept" that I'm working on is narrow depths of field and intentional blurs of nature, using the Brooks Estate and its surrounding environment (pond and forest) as the context.  Because it is just a short walk from my studio, I'm able to spend an hour or so capturing nature as it slowly turns from season to season.  I've become more aware of the incremental changes that occur during each season: partial freezes, crumpled leaves long past their life yet still clinging to barren branches, as well as all-out storms that define the essence of what a season is about.

I've experimented with writing short poems on selected favorites and then using a line from the poem to title the image.  This adds subjectivity and brings the imagery into the realm of thought: taking reality, revealing its ephemeral aspects with blur and selective focus and bringing it into the high position of interpretive thought.