Ross Sawyers

Focusing on the idea of space Ross Sawyers explores hypothesis of human encroach upon their neighbors. He is influenced on increasing density of new housing developments. With the combination of smaller spaces and the encroachment of others create a tension within the environment. Theses environments are closer to the actual but are not completely copies of realities. The realities differ between the shift of architecture and voids at that serves no apparent function.
These structures reflect apartments and houses that we all have experienced in various and intimate ways. For Ross this level of familiarity is crucial, creating environments that resonate with the viewer. Allowing them see a parallel between the visual interpretation.

pic of the week

This image was taken in the crossroads area in KC. Its a piece that was taken at night and i started to move the camera around will I had the shatter open. It is about the movement and the ways the light create life in the image. The light became a gestural paint brush creating the lines and light.

Karen Glaser

Karen Glaser body of work takes us on a journey into a world that we never see. She began photographing manatees and then the underwater habitats of the parts of Florida. Glaser wants to bring her audience to unique views of rare landscapes. She begins to bring the idea of endangered resource in the area that she photographs.


It is vital for Glaser to photograph more in order to represent the true enormity and subtly of my subject. Through her acute attention to how the elements behave in the wet and dry season and how they intersect, She was able to record fleeting moments within these complex ecosystems resulting in elaborately layered photographs.


She loves the idea that the glass of water that we drink on daily bases, is the same water that only 45 minutes this water is from the wild. That you are drinking water that originated in the swamp or river that she has slogged through to make the picture you just view


It is all about the idea of viewing images in a new way, and opening your mind to nature.

pic of the week

Here is the pic of the week this image is a coffee negative that has been printed with a digital printer

"sun blast" 9x9

Image!?

We have the general concept and impression of what an image is. Is an image flat or is there more to the idea of what an photograph is? It is my opinion their is more to this concept of what makes an image. I feel that the viewer needs to focus on subject matter, the process of making a photograph, how the image is constructed, and the space around the image. These ideas help to create this concept and the idea an image is.

These ideas are the main stay and focus to my work. In this way it leads me though a body of work that began with my use of two dimensional photographs to create a three dimensional image. While working with this process and trying to stay within the confines of photographic realism of the artwork. In a way this creates an image that is more two and half dimensions in nature. Now these images force the viewer to re-evaluate their perception of space. This expands the image from a two dimensional plain to a space around the image. Interlocking the space and idea into one concept, in which we can classify as an image. With out this I strongly believe that the focus and meaning is lost to the viewer.