saulanis' photostream

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A. Many of my images are a combination of different visual elements from nature and ordinary objects. Sometimes the objects themselves remain hidden and one is forced to confront the photograph as a sort of homeless image defined only by visual elements like form and colour. Sometimes I manipulate images in a certain way that forces you to see something in the object that the ordinary eye may overlook such as the world within an icy hollow. At other times, I may use certain techniques to create a sort of surreal image to provoke the imagination and instil a sense of the mysterious. Sometime I see something in an image or in a combination of images such as a particular mood, theme, or pattern and I attempt to amplify it.
This is all in retrospect. Most of the time, I work in a sort of free, fluid manner without strict conscious intentions. I think this allows for self-revelation and a certain freedom by not limiting myself to rules and method.

B. Art is a form of communication. There is nothing more amusing and absurd than to see your emotions so neatly framed and hanging on a wall looking quite contained. Don’t let the formal presentation of art fool you. The only desire a work of art has is to seep from the wall and consume the atmosphere surrounding it. I think that is the beauty of its contained appearance. Art is always waiting to be freed from its confined nature. Since art, like human beings cannot escape its own nature, it wants to draw you in and in doing so pull you further into yourself. The artist speaks through their art and frees their thoughts and emotions but the art itself is freed through the spectator.
I try my best to truly create bold and vivid images in order to lure the viewer into the world of the image. Subtlety has its uses but at this time I have no use for it. If I have achieved anything through my art, I hope I have successfully tore away the protective weapon that we call the human face, or more specifically, the face we wear through human convention or civil appearances. Human beings are deceptive creatures. There is a whole universe behind human appearances, and although a person can never transcend their subjective nature, art is the closest thing we have to bridge our subjectivity. The violent emotion that art projects is nothing more than one’s subjective reality. Art by its very nature is honest and revealing unlike human appearances and that is why it is not only desirable but necessary.

C. There is nothing more lifelss than recycled art. Innovation is the fruit of all creativity, imitation is its vomit. The artist must define themself over and against the definition forced onto them by society.
Art = Revolt