estuary - 2k14-B / Color Sectors
We have been neglecting this blog slightly in the past few weeks thanks to a lot of work, but we feel terrible for underfeeding our regular readers. Hence we have decided to offer a whole set of estuary as opposed to a partial set linked to our Convozine page. Moreover, we feel it is one of the best. So, here is today's Blog... or this week's blog would be more fare :/ :)
As you already know, estuary was created by our founder and first photographer Eric and his project partner, UK landscape photographer Tom Unsworth. In the beginning, both of these artists combines (the project's main product) were somewhat similar as they explored the possibilities with each others photography. Over time Tom's work acquired a distinctive signature and so did Eric's. Stay tuned to this blog as we will feature Tom's estuary works here soon.
For this second offer of the year to the project, Eric has followed up on the new creative gesture thrown at estuary the last time - http://convozine.com/estuary/37454
Eric: the new clipping and tampering of the original photographs I have started doing this year, along with the accentuated frame separator lines function, have defined this newest set. It gives the subjects whole new dimensions I find. Hence my contribution to the project as well. In the early stages of the project I was concerned with producing a clash between two worlds on one canvas all the while trying to make the framed combine pleasing to the eye. This objective is still part of the deal obviously as it is the nature of the 'estuary' project. However, the final product, the combines canvas', has become a single entity in my mind as opposed to a meeting place for each others works : Montreal's underground city and the Wales countryside.
The original photographs used in the creation of the frames have therefore become a tool for creating as opposed to immovable artworks that must be left untouched. This wasn't an easy thing to push on my mind ; all photographers will agree that we hate seeing our works modified, more so amputated in part. But with the consent of my project partner and the consent of my own subconscious mind, I have. After all, creating is the goal and the original photographs still exist on their own.
As for the lines that act as separators within the frames, they are part of my signature in the project and I insisted on leaving them in the equation but with some new function. So, they will at times separate cleanly, at other times be absent and at other times they will be segmented. The nature of them has now changed to act as visual elements per say in the final product, not just frame separators, forming shapes and changing the way the images interact.
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