Three 4 Seattle

Three 4 Seattle

Seattle Skyline 2014

Walking around, looking around (and up), finding shape and color in the urban environment. I like the way things fit in my compositions, all the little triangles around the larger one in the Seattle Skyline, and at the Seattle construction site, the primary colors, plus black, white, and gray. Somedays, things just fit in the frame perfectly, taking advantage of the confines of the frame, all the space on the film, or in this case, sensor.

Seattle Construction

This third image, added to this post later, and now included here: I just couldn’t walk past it, or ignore it, for several reasons. It just grabbed me; a hole in the wall, a broken surface, a simple, beautiful shape, on a gray textured field. As a source, it was located directly behind me as I arranged the elements of the picture included above in this post.

SeaShape

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T 4 Tumblr

T 4 Tumblr

I just signed up for a Tumblr account as another way of presenting images, and various arts related material from around the web. The first post is a series of images from my recent exhibition Palimpsest II that closed last week. ps: by the time you see this, it will no longer the first post at the top of the page.

arttaj.tumblr.com

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Three New Pictures (2014)

Three New Pictures (2014)

image: 14" x 20" paper: 18" x 24"

Red Stripe, 2014 image: 14″ x 20″ paper: 18″ x 24″

Posting three new pictures from my ongoing series of photographs exploring a variety of elements, formal, spatial, color, time, and memory. As described in previous posts, these are images that are presented to me, that I find while walking. Continue reading →

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Project Space Olympia

When I stop by the gallery I usually take some time to play with the light, see how it relates to the works on the walls. While documenting the exhibit other things happen, light comes in from outside, mingling with the halogens, mixing in interesting and subtle ways. Sometimes it catches me by surprise, Continue reading →

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