Final Artist Critique: Luc Demers South Window 2010

Luc Demers is a contemporary photographer who does many different genres of of work. One in particular series that is striking is his series called Darkened Rooms. In this series he photographs various windows and doors in a setting that chokes out light. There is usually only one source of light throughout this particular series, which gives these passageways a certain glow. There is an eerie and almost other worldly quality that is accompanied by the light source in most of these photographs. This picture above is apart of the Darkened Rooms series and it is titled South Window 2010. This is a very striking photograph to me, mainly because the room is completely bathed in deep shadow, while there is only a small, illuminating source of light.

This photograph is a stark representation and embodiment of Demer's Darkened Rooms series. The genus involved with using completely shadowed rooms accentuates the natural light source in a mystical way. This passageway almost visualizes an entry way into another realm or world. The use of just a small amount of light allows Luc Demers to portray this entry way in a very mystical and glowing  manner that suggests many functions and outcomes. Demers illustrates the endless possibilities involved with shadow and light. With this series he defines a whole new way of taking interior pictures. In the future I hope to see more of this man's photography work and see how he has evolved his use of light and shadow.

Final project : passageways of transformation, progress critique

I am going toward bathing my images of doors and passageways in stark and rich black shadows. I am attempting to have viewers see doors in a different and more dramatic light, in order to convey them as sacred passageways or transitional spaces. 

Project 4 Altering the Print: Scratching the Surface of Nature

I scratched off various pieces of my landscape prints to illustrate space in a different way. I wanted to project a style of art that took me back to an infantile state. I also wanted to enhance each print in a very physical way. 

Idea For Final Project: Doorways of reality

This is a tentative idea for my final project. This was partly inspired by Aldous Huxely, Jim Morrison, and my own personal intuition. These are the doorways of reality. 

Matthew Brandt: Viel Lake CA 5

Matthew Brandt is a contemporary photographer that does most of his work out of Southern California. His photographic work consists mostly of various alterations of photographs. In this particular series Brandt altered prints of different lakes and reservoirs around the state of California. Most of this series was altered through dipping his C prints in the lakes themselves. C prints are Chromogenic color prints that have a certain amount of silver halide emulsion and dyes that bring out the color of images on photographic paper. These prints were soaked in the lakes that were being photographed, which tinted or distorted the colors of these various images within his Lake and Reservoir series. This is a very creative and genius process that not only captures the visual essence of the lake in the image, but the alteration also embodies the physical properties of the lake in the image by being soaked in the lake's water.

This particular image above brings out the warm color scheme involved in the C print. Through the process of being soaked in Viel Lake water an alteration is brought fourth through the image. This process brings the image under a different light almost as if this image is being seen for the first time. This is an ingenious way of taking landscape photography and I hope to continue to see more work like this from Matthew Brandt.

This Is Epic

Here is an amazing video 

Color Bars project Spring 2012

Here is another personal take on stop motion. This was a Sunny D commercial spoof that I filmed for intro to video art production in Spring 2012.