Rose Umerlik is the featured artist for the most recent Artist Curated Book Display. Her paintings and book display will show at the Portsmouth Public Library for the month of September. Go see.
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karen connell – seascapes
I love that I was totally fooled by this image. I figured the photographer took this while standing knee deep in the ocean while it was raining. Not so. Read below.
SEASCAPES
The seascapes are a series titled “Anywhere But Here”. The series consists of 436 different scenes. The water is actually 1/8″ thick pieces of clear, vacuum-formed plastic. The varied molded forms create the wave structure. The water color is created by placing layers of acetate underneath the plastic. The coloring and sky are created with lights and backdrops. The entire construction is eight inches square. I shot the scenes with a 35 mm camera using a macro lens. I chose to shoot this small film size so that the image would be grainy when enlarged. The photograph then literally breaks down. This is intended to reinforce the idea that the image is a simulation. They have been shown singularly and as installations of between 1,113 and 2,712 images mounted to walls (each photo is 4″ x 6″).
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