{"id":696,"date":"2013-10-22T02:14:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T02:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2013-10-22T02:14:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T02:14:23","slug":"october-texture-that-jumps-out-and-grabs-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"October – Texture that Jumps Out and Grabs You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Oct<\/a>Photographing texture can help you look at bits and pieces of the world in different ways.\u00c2\u00a0 First of all, with our eyes we view the world in three dimensions but our photographic interpretations are pretty much flat.\u00c2\u00a0 So it is a challenge to visually represent \u00e2\u20ac\u0153texture.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 But that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be done.<\/p>\n

Texture is defined as the way a surface, substance or piece of cloth feels when you touch it.\u00c2\u00a0 The surface may, for example, be rough, smooth, hard or soft.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition, in my search of texture I also seek to make everyday articles beautiful and the bland profound.<\/p>\n

As artists\/photographers we not only strive to capture what we see but also how we experience what we see with both our eye and our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153heart.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Creating images of texture takes the challenge one step further: conveying to the viewer the sense of how the subject might actually feel to the touch.\u00c2\u00a0 A great texture shot can reach out and grab you.<\/p>\n

\"Oct<\/a>When the world news headlines scream \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Disgusted\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Disaster\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Death\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I often escape by creating tactile images to help me digest the despairing current events.\u00c2\u00a0 Rusting metal, pumpkin piles, and a tapestry of garden straw flowers were all at hand this past week.<\/p>\n

\"Oct<\/a>Smooth, rusty, tarnished and dull, metal easily gives up its age and provides the photographer with another great texture to work on.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather worked on the side of a shed like a painter methodically using her palette.\u00c2\u00a0 Soon to be demolished or forsaken, its panels surrendered to my abstracting imagination.\u00c2\u00a0 Through the lens I felt its tiny rough mountains and sprawling silver tributaries.<\/p>\n

Fabric is a huge part of our daily life: clothes, furniture, carpeting, walls, car interiors, silk scarves, wool wraps and curtains, to name just a few.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition I love to photograph natural subjects but render them as impressionist tapestry.\u00c2\u00a0 The multiple (8 images) exposure is my cross between Monet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lily ponds and my hand block-printed Indian sari.<\/p>\n

Add a few crackled pumpkins and the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surfaces are looking and feeling a little more worth walking among.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps even with bare feet and an open heart\/mind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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