This tree image won a contest in the Santa Clarita Art Bus Stop Project. The the theme is to see things in an unusual way. I submitted this photo collage of fog on glass, fused glass chips, and tree silhouette. I am now trying to create this scene in real life.
Usually I see the trunk and branches as solid with roundness and depth and the background of no special interest. In this piece, however, the trunk is recessed and ethereal. It is flat and light goes through it. The brilliance of the rippled glass which is the background seems to be solid grabs the eye first. It’s like encountering a bright light in a fog while seeing outlines with crystal crispness, or emerging from a deep ocean looking up to see a tree through ripples in the water. You will never see trees in this light.
Very nice work. When I was in Paris, I went to Saint Chapelle, the gothic church with the famous stained glass windows. I was in awe of the light filtering through the glass into the church, it was the 1241 AD. version of IMAX.
ReplyDeleteYour work is ethereal, yet powerful. It would interesting to see your work interpreted in a photographic image.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Chapelle