Small Scale Fabricated Photography, Toy Photography History, Art Creation Musings
"The work we make, even if unnoticed and undesired by the world, vibrates in perfect harmony to everything we put into it - or withhold from it. In the outside world there may be no reaction to what we do; in our artwork there is nothing but reaction."– DAVID BAYLES AND TED ORLAND, ART & FEAR: OBSERVATIONS... Continue Reading →
I wrote about Surrealism on the Toy Photographers blog in 2017. While I had been using surrealist tenants in my work (like illustrating my dreams), this was the first time I wrote about it. My goal when writing for the Toy Photographers blog that year was to be motivational, to really show everyone that toy... Continue Reading →
That doesn't mean I don't often have fun or find enjoyment in the photos I take, but fun is not my why, not my motivator . “Art is coming face to face with yourself.”-Jackson Pollock Someone I keep coming across insists people aren't having enough fun in their toy photos, that's where all problems lie,... Continue Reading →
"Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be."– DAVID BAYLES AND TED ORLAND, ART & FEAR: OBSERVATIONS ON THE PERILS (AND REWARDS) OF ARTMAKING Surrealism in its absolute simplicity is imagination, emotion, knowledge of self. Is this not what the aim of... Continue Reading →
A look inside my mind. I've been so fatigued as part of this MS attack I'm currently living through, that I feel I'm wading through a constant state of semi unconscious. I'll have a thought, an idea and it will be so fleeting it's immediately gone, never to be recovered. I go about my daily... Continue Reading →
My BFA senior project and the words I wrote with it, created my last year of college 2013. "Charles Baudelaire, the 19th century French Poet once said, “We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and sensation of Time.” Time is vastly important in our daily lives. Our lifetimes are only so long, and within... Continue Reading →
November 2020 I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Based on previous symptoms, and the large number of lesions on my brain, it became evident that I'd had it for some time and was misdiagnosed previously. 7+ MRI scans later and an immense amount of stress in choosing treatment, medical bills piling up, and following up... Continue Reading →
In trying to find the earliest toy photograph, I came accross the amazing work of these two. Their work can't be part of my early toy photography search as I've already found a couple that predate these, but it certainly is something to be noted nevertheless. Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) “I don’t think photography has... Continue Reading →