There is an endless and ever-expanding collection of remarkable work available for public view on flickr. The photographs of thousands of creative people rest just below the digital surface, waiting for a key-stroke to bring them to light. I am inspired and challenged by the work I’ve discovered there and have been building a series of composite photographs, based on the square tags that flickr assigns to each photo, for over a year. Some of these pieces were created as a response to poetry…some poems have been born in response to the photographs. It is my hope that this blog will serve as a place to share these composites and the words that go with them, as well as to bring attention to the photographers whose images inspired the project in the first place.
“I’ve been thinking about your
squares” and it seems to me that you are not
just the “art director”. These squares feel made
to me in the way poems are made. A kind of
deep intuitive knowing about which colors and
objects resonate next to each other, top bottom
and diagonal. They tell a story but a poem kind
of story, each one as enigmatic as twilight;
wise, sometimes soothing, sometimes opening
a window or a door and then it’s up to the viewer
to go through or not. In short, art.”
These lovely, encouraging words via poet Mekeel McBride
http://mekeelmcbride.blogspot.com