Galleries

They have 2-3 different photographs on each collage. For Framing San Jose I used a background photo of the actual frames. I cut and pasted each frame and put it on top of the stairs to make it look that they are sitting on the steps. For Raining Music I cut and pasted the hearts from another photo to make it look like the dog is enjoying the music, The rain and the skeleton head was from another photographs. I decided to use those photographs together because they all have similar textures. I moved the PacMan ghost in Haunting Ghosts from one side to the other and patched the missing cement, ten I cut and pasted the gun and the flower from another photograph and for the dots I made circle out of the black background and inverted the colors.

Plants and nature are a form of art that is no man made. The way that the art is captured makes it easier to see things in another way. Playing with the point of view with the camera helps it seem more unique and special. Nature is the most important part of life, in other words nature is life. Nature has repetition (Cactusy), continuity (Agavy), symmetry (Leafy), similarity (Flowery),  good Gestalt (Agavies) and past experience (Palmy).

Gestalt psychology influenced my photography by using the containment on 24/8 as a natural frame. On San Jose’s Steps the image makes the eyes follow the path of the stairs going up as continuity. The Push photograph was made with an open wood door as a type of containment for the text, but it also has closure because the wood goes on through the photograph without having and end to it. Windows of Possibilities has containment because of the frame of the plants, the frame of the window and the window itself; it also has proximity with all the hedge. The Fumes Photograph has symmetry as well as similarity and continuity. Green Hedge has a lot of proximity  because of the tight hedge surrounding the text, the shapes under the words are continuity.

People passing everyday, some notice, some don’t. Every once in a while there are people who leave their mark in unexpected ways with their own twist. Different points of view, different techniques, different media and substrate, but at the end they are all leaving their own thoughts.