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9/28/2020

Beginning a series of works captured just last week at the Runge Nature Center, a section of which was exploding in sunflowers of some kind or another (yeah, I know, my knowledge of floral species is lacking; holler me with a specific label if one occurs). Okay, okay, I know I’ve said before how I’ve already a plethora of florals in my portfolio and how creating them is almost too easy – so easy it feels like cheating – and I’m resisting the temptation to do more. But I caught them at just the right time in just the right light and began using a new series of techniques that worked like fertilizer. Really stinky fertilizer. I couldn’t resist, so shoot me. For the next ten posts the farmer is busy.

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Curtis Hendricks

All my life I have had to learn to do things differently. To see the world differently.

Art attracted me from the beginning. Almost every home in the tiny farming village where I grew up had DaVinci’s ‘Last Supper’ on the wall. I would come across modern abstract art in magazines and be absolutely fascinated by the colors and techniques.

But there were no artists in my village. No one understood what modern art was. Or why it was. But there was an appreciation for photography.

I began shooting with a 1960 model Agfa rangefinder fixed-lens 35mm camera and learned to use darkroom techniques to finish my work. Graduating to a single lens reflex camera I worked primarily with Kodachrome. Digital photography opened a new world. The computer became the artboard I never had; the darkroom I could never afford. I discovered there would never be a camera or a lens that could capture what I saw in my head – that, I had to learn to create on my own.

I use the photograph the same way a painter uses a charcoal sketch – as a starting place. I squeeze out the unseen hiding between the pixels; the angels, the demons of my own imagination.

Light. Color. Darkness. Perspective. Introversion. Mystery. Love.

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