amazing
radro
that seeking feeling of wanting
wanting to do
to do something
something which matters
not
just a drop
in the biG ocean
something which matters
matter that counts
counts towards a difference
different approach
something which matters
silence contribution
towards a statement
we care
Creating photos
Many say ‘don’t take a photo create a photo’
The camera limitations made me to have to create photos. The use of pictureTalk, what do you want to say with your pictures, creates photos.
under the try-pot
The photography becomes a daily venture, a daily learning of picturesque. Your point of view altering every time you look.
The path took me back to the past, my early childhood years there were i learned to ice-skate. The roads were now so small compare to my childhood vision but the trees had grown. Only when you stop, only when you slow down you start to see what once was.
people always smile when my pictures are created as i lay close to the water surface and only the small camera can be there with me. The professional cameras will drop and drown, giving a very frustrated image. How can you place a trypote in the water close enough to the water surface. Than how can you take the moving leaf while standing solid on 3 legs.
So the photos are created with a simple camera which i can hold very still in my hand just above the water surface. The camera can be moved easy flowing with the floating leaf, perfect you would say.
Yep , but, the quality of the photo is such that it can’t be printed more than A3 and even than you see the pixels appear. SO, no photo program like photoshop or others will be able to overcome this by creating pixels, it can’t add on. The idea came to create even further a photo by using software, research shows some spectacle results of double exposure making one photo with several photos. OK That goes well over my head. Photoshop is a very complicated program which takes a long time learning but i have an old desktop publishing program with which i have created many leaflets, business cards, books and posters.
You can create layer over layer not giving the same effect as double exposure, still giving the possibility to create one photo with several photos and even better giving the possibility of collage.
The way to print on A3 without loosing any pixels. After lots of experimenting, the final cut has come. Using several photos i took while laying and standing there were i learned iceskating, perhaps the place where my love for nature started.
See you
What to prove
by
planting a tree
How to perceive beyond
the green
sixty centimetres
noting more
skinny being in cracked soil
slight different angle
aspects turned around
to breath
more than sound
when growth outmined viewpoint
against the wind
inside that intersection of no belief
Slide 5 PLANTING TREES
Its all done before
and
it will be done again
to form a pattern
close a circle
tree will outgrow you and me
to leave something, we can’t reach
telling stories nobody reads
time will tell
how we feel
interactive transgression
meaning of nature to clean
that what we leave in a leaf
the counter weight of transactions
showing an image not made by hand
slide 6 other artists
to shake it all again
not so sure about the name
as what is in the name of ART
more than poverty over brain
what is it worth
for YOU?
Going from a poem inside the drop towards the conversation on the ground.
LandArt
As there is not much more to say i share some great sites to explore:
The idea is not new but old, planting a garden is art, illustrating that garden is art, telling stories about that garden is art, taking a photo of that garden is art, hiding in that garden is art.
and
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/the-herbarium-aesthetic-form-and-beauty/
why we do what we do, why not
and
when you need some rest
tock de rock
till next week
Something a bit different.
In the progress of making a slideshow for the exhibition, sort of powerpoint. The slides are made with photos and text and at times there is a need for some neutral background instead of blinding white.
SO
The camera became a paintbrush with at times good results even from the 230 shots just 5 are suitable.
Fading colours with a high iso
Rainbow effect with water
that didn’t work out but still a great picture with an other rainbow
OK this is not what was expected but what the eyes see the camera shall capture
the beauty being self employed no boss tells you that was not your task, or job description for today nor quality controle
no excuses needed
REFLECTION
Last week agenda took an unexpected turn, to the watersite.
Experiments with earth and paper had to make space for boats and water.
drops of promo under the tree roots
The promotion material for the art markets are made and ready. Water seems to be the subject of last week even in the promotion.
The framed photo is an old photo made in 2003 with my last analoge camera. A filter was used to create a round frame around the photo and of course a black and white film.
It is an amazing tree standing on the edge of Cleddau River in Wales. Once a ferry was going to the other site, now it is left to do what it likes.
The trees here need to deal with, yep, water as it is a tidal river with brackish water. The tides have washed away the soil, creating an amazing sculpture by showing the strong roots from the trees.
Now a new river flows along my home and soon i will float along in a wooden boat up to some Art Markets.
Still had some time to experiment with my camera in making underwater photos.
parelmoer
The result is odd, but gives a ‘Nacra’ shine as if we are looking in the inside of a shell. It is just the reflection of light in water at a certain angle, showing us that light has a bundle of colours.
A prisma under water bended by movement.
which word
i Am a LEAF on the Wind floating escaping seeking direction
inside the millions of Words
Hundreds of rules
Thousands of images
i Am a LEAF on the Wind realising what trees have been
a selection in the forest value of numbers reselection
i Am a LEAF on the Wind Blown away in thousands
curls, swirls, whirls, spinning Twists as to wonder
Where to land
falling
i Am a LEAF on the Wind
What to say as things, people, trees, rocks, seeds, birds, bees pass BY
i Am a LEAF on the Wind rushing to find soil
to enter the world of ground
aWay from air bubbles, rumbling resonant vibration
Right back into that wandering feeling to set the first step into the unknown direction
discovering which way to go while roaming
like a leaf on the wind
finding the moment to fall
do you know that feeling
and go against all odds
figuring things out while moving
as a fall is just The beginning of lost memories of
strength
courage
stamina
intensity
a leaf on the wind is not afraid to fall down
to a new other existent surrounding
to become a nemophilist
i must not forget what i did to create the new
The above is not much else than artistic therapy on the moment i feel so overwhelmed by the new project.
Now a new picture hangs there to remind me
i Am a LEAF on the Wind
It is also a part of showing a more personal struggle that lays behind the Land Art Forest.
Before i had the land and the ideas followed upon it now i have the ideas but not the land.
How to persuade people to join this project, without loosing the artistic approach.
On one side there is the need to be professional according to the rules and perspectives that people have and on the other side lays the forest as art.
what it should be
In the end
i Am a LEAF on the Wind
ready to fall Down
