Saturday, February 15, 2025

My art focused on corners

Lynn is a member of a cooperative of artists so I get plenty of contact with painters, jewelers, photographers, sculptors, potters and such. I came up with a theme of my own art but she doubted I would be accepted as a member.  She had her doubts before she had even seen one piece of my art, mostly because I haven't actually made any (and I likely will not).  


What I imagine might be some art I could produce, given my lack of persistence and my relatively short attention span, would be visual art.  Photographs, to be more exact.  When I was in the 4th grade, I had a little hobby of photography, the older kind that needed to be worked on in a darkroom, and involved a liquid developer and a liquid stabilizer and a clothesline of drying pieces of special paper.  Things have changed since then.  Now I take pictures, in color not black-and-white and they are immediately finished.  Much simpler and faster.


So, what kind of photos?  I was thinking "corners".  As I looked around, I saw many right angle corners that I could take a picture of: boxes, books, computer equipment, furniture, buildings, etc.  I envision being hailed for a steady stream of photos of corners.  I mean beautiful women, handsome men, dogs, babies, kittens and such have been done and done and done. When I was first learning to meditate, I needed a visual anchor and it was easy to focus on corners of all kinds, all over the place.  So, my art will concentrate on corners high and low, here and there.