Abstraction of Design:
Working thru the apparatus of the camera, i.e. double exposures, close up, wide angle shots, etc to come up with imagery that is abstracted from reality. The success of the abstraction will be the impact of the perception of the art as an end in itself producing a prolongation of the experience of the perception. "In art it is our experience of the process of construction that counts, not the finished product."*
This significance keeps us focused on a photograph or painting for a longer period, thus enhancing our pleasure in viewing the image. This significance can also lead us to think about that which is captured or painted and to come to a different understanding which leads us to see the characteristic beauty in another way, enhancing the innate beauty of the object captured.
* Victor Shklovsky on Tolstoy Diaries quoted in Robert Scholes, Structuralism in Literature, Yale 1974
If we can enhance the perception of an everyday mundane beauty to a heighten awareness of a deeper beauty we may come to see the mundane with a higher consciousness, uplifting it from the mundane, cliche, nostalgic arena where pictures go to die. Giving us hope beyond the trivial. A scene in nature, double exposed on itself will give us more to ponder than just the trivial nostalgia we have become so accustomed to.
Even an abstraction of a flower can carry our thinking of that flower far beyond the image of the flower itself. We have seen countless images of a flower and have become immune to the reflection of that flower's beauty. By abstracting the image of the flower, an alternative focus is applied that leads us to focus on other aspects or purposes of the intended object photographed, Making us more aware of our natural environment by looking at an alternative or abstract view of that nature.
Working thru the apparatus of the camera, i.e. double exposures, close up, wide angle shots, etc to come up with imagery that is abstracted from reality. The success of the abstraction will be the impact of the perception of the art as an end in itself producing a prolongation of the experience of the perception. "In art it is our experience of the process of construction that counts, not the finished product."*
This significance keeps us focused on a photograph or painting for a longer period, thus enhancing our pleasure in viewing the image. This significance can also lead us to think about that which is captured or painted and to come to a different understanding which leads us to see the characteristic beauty in another way, enhancing the innate beauty of the object captured.
* Victor Shklovsky on Tolstoy Diaries quoted in Robert Scholes, Structuralism in Literature, Yale 1974
If we can enhance the perception of an everyday mundane beauty to a heighten awareness of a deeper beauty we may come to see the mundane with a higher consciousness, uplifting it from the mundane, cliche, nostalgic arena where pictures go to die. Giving us hope beyond the trivial. A scene in nature, double exposed on itself will give us more to ponder than just the trivial nostalgia we have become so accustomed to.
Even an abstraction of a flower can carry our thinking of that flower far beyond the image of the flower itself. We have seen countless images of a flower and have become immune to the reflection of that flower's beauty. By abstracting the image of the flower, an alternative focus is applied that leads us to focus on other aspects or purposes of the intended object photographed, Making us more aware of our natural environment by looking at an alternative or abstract view of that nature.
