Moving in to color a bit.

[Joshua Burton]

I've just been playing around recently with different ways I can layer photographs I've been taking with my newly aquired digital camera. I like some of what I see, so I thought I'd share... I think this has some potential, but I'm still figuring out where to go with it - playing.

Sun-net Remix




Ghost Crab Remix




Flowerworks Remix

[Cameron Gray]

They're interesting, although the mirroring of the images adds a sense of repetitiveness to them. One side is exactly the same as the other, and so the viewer only needs to look at half the image which is what you don't want as an artist.
I'd recommend applying more elements on top of the mirrored background to add a more visually interesting approach to the piece.

- CG

[Joshua Burton]

Yes, thank you. I understand what you're saying completely, symmetry is for boats and early American presidential estate houses and plantations. But I believe there's something good to come from this, and symmetry is not something I'm fully against exactly... it's a composition/technical no-no, but I don't like rules.

I do want to repeat that I'm not sure where I'm going with these. I don't traditionally like tradition, so these would never be presented as they are, in a frame on a wall, at least not by my request.

I'm unsure about which option I should chose to bring these a step further, but I know that another step or 15 need to take place before I am interested in them. What I find that IS interesting in the mirroring and overlapping of the photographs, and their resulting symmetry, is the recognizable shapes that begin to form. I think this idea can definitely be brought to the realm of paint, to give the shapes I find a life of there own.

It feels like a good thing to bring to paint, it has a definite level of unsurity, a sense of it being a puzzle etc.. and they all have some emotional/mental significance to me, being based on photographs I took. So the realms of logic and expression can really come together on this, I hope, and make something that has more of it's own consciousness than these images here.

Thank you for responding, and your honest opinion.

Off topic somewhat: You have some excellent photographs on your site. Are you shooting digital-only? I specifically like the few where it looks like you secluded and lit dryed vegetation on a black background. Some of them have a film-feel to them, but it's so hard to tell online.

Peace,
-Josh

[VOLOVO]

very interesting art you make - a mix from fractal + surreal + photo - great