Small Scale Fabricated Photography, Toy Photography History, Art Creation Musings
A poem of sorts I exist. I work. I clean. I socialize. I create. But the cleaning is painful and exhausting and gets done oh so slowly or not at all. The socializing is strained and exhausting but I need it all the same. I try to plan ahead, I don't want to cancel, and... Continue Reading →
I'm stumbling back into the world of regularly creating and am excited about what is in store for the coming year!
"Your job is to watch where you're going and hopefully have the foresight and freedom to make some mid-course corrections along the way. One of the truly wonderful things about artmaking is that it gives you permission - at any given moment, in any given art piece - to access anything you need, from any... Continue Reading →
While art can be used very effectively in therapy while under the guidance of an art therapist, separate, on its own, made personally, it's often not. Art can be made to represent times of distress, but it doesn't replace those times in the artists psyche. Moreover, it cements them, memorializes them, it hopefully, someday, is... Continue Reading →
"As the longest-running avant-garde movement of the 20th century, Surrealism’s scope and richness is perhaps unparalleled in its influence of modern art and culture." (2) Theory of the Unconscious In 1900 and then 1905, Freud developed a model of the unconscious mind. In 1915 Freud further defined this model. The mind is an iceberg. The... Continue Reading →
For the first time in a long time I'm content with not creating. That's not to say I won't still be making things. I most certainly will. But I'm allowing myself to relax, to recharge, to actually enjoy my photography day job and to not beat myself up when I'm not creating personally. We'll see... Continue Reading →
your world and the art you make of it #inspiration #toyphotography
I originally wrote this post, and published it on Toy Photographers in 2017, but it constantly remains oh so relevant. The very first play in The Photographer’s Playbook asks the reader to figure out what game they’re playing. So, I say to myself, “I’m creating because I have a creative drive.” But this needs to... Continue Reading →