Color is something that I always pay close attention to in my work. It’s presence or absences from a piece can have a profound impact its mood, contrast and subject matter. In my photography I typical choose to leave color out of my images. I feel it can take away from the subject and I enjoy the aesthetics of a black and white image. I find my paintings really benefit from use of color but I can’t help but feel a detachment from my paints and the actual subject I’m painting. For my next project I hope to bridge this gap between the colors of my subjects and the paint on my canvas.
Since early cave painting humans have been painting from their surroundings. I hope to recreate this act of painting with what is naturally around me but with a twist, using my subjects themselves. If there is a spilled package of Ketchup in the image then it will be squirted on the canvas. If there happens to be bird crap on a rock then it will get smeared onto the image. Some subjects simply will not rub off on the canvas and these I will use as a sort of pallet knife. The goal of this project is to have a bit of reality rub off on something that is a creation of our minds and a struggle of our hands.
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