Documenting Historic Trees
I'm photographing the trees I've grown to love around my West Fort Worth neighborhood. Most are magnificent and some are quirky- some are now gone from age or disease and their images might be my favorites.
I have the images are printed on heavy artist paper and then use pastel and graphite do enhancement or obfuscation- manual Photoshop. It's subtle but produces for the viewer a gentle surprise to discover.
The large originals will be proposed as an exhibit and limited edition prints are coming.
I've been collecting patterns that I see everywhere- in nature, in dust, in the arrangement of construction debris. I photograph them and then have a party with filters- it's self-entertaining, but it's also very seriously an exercise in the art of Noticing and then Making. These images are important to me- I don't know why, the same way I'm not sure why anything is particularly beautiful. They just are.
You just know it, and that fills you up.