During our stay here in the Big Easy we are trying to chronicle as much about the area as we can for you. They one thing about a new environment for artist is that you have new eyes, nothing is common place. In your own world one becomes used to seeing things and forgets to look closely at times. When ever an artist is in a new environment, it is like you have fresh eyes, you see every thing anew. It is a like a shot of adrenaline, hundreds of new images coming at you and every thing seems new..because it is to you. We were coming out of Drago's Restaurant (a wonderful seafood restaurant) and across the parking lot these electric lines outside a building. The white on white, the shapes forming an abstract composition of alien tentacle like soldiers, and the lines almost in motion..like wind blown...still frozen in motion from Katrina and the wake of destruction it left. The straight lined contrast of the bricks against the curved caps of current connectors makes for an interesting juxtaposition.
These make me think of Louise Nevelson and her mono toned collages in New York. See what you think. I will include some of Nevelson's work for you to compare.
I am not sure yet how I will use these photo's in my work, or just let the work be the photo...but I seem to want to do more, so we shall see where it leads. The more i look at them, the more they speak to me and seem to want to say more!
STUDIES IN LINE, SHAPE AND TEXTURE
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| Metairie Electric Lines photo by elizabeth gordon |
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| Metarie Electric Lines photo by elizabeth gordon |
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| Louise Nevelson from google image |
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| from google image |
GIVE YOURSELF A TREAT, GO TO A NEW AREA, A NEW ENVIRONMENT, TAKE A CAMERA OR SKETCH BOOK...AND THEN SIT BACK AND WAIT..IT WILL BE IMAGE ON IMAGE, NEW SMELLS, NEW SOUNDS, AND NEW IMAGES. I PROMISE YOU IT IS A TREAT FOR THE ARTISTS' SOUL.
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