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Morning Luminance

6/10/2019

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There is a philosophy which goes like this: In nature, all things are either progressing or receding; nothing ever stays the same and nothing ever goes backward. It is a sharp contrast to attitudes lamenting that “I just want things to stay the same” or “I wish it could go back the way it was”. The blush of the bloom constantly shifts its nature.

Creativity – mental focus – is not alien. There is a point when capturing photographs where I become tired of walking around, tired of the heat, my muscles ache, the light has shifted, the time in which I can expect a great capture has expired. At the computer, I begin to feel drained. I’ve given all I can to new works. The spark dulls. So I’ll move on; mess with other projects, answer email, go putter around the house.

Functionally the bloom always returns after the plant dies and goes dormant with winter – spring revives everything. The creative spark returns after a good night sleep. But the process has to play out first. Dissatisfaction with the current season does no good; more likely hurts. Play the hand as it lays; go with the pitch.

​Do human beings get a ‘spring’? Oh, the debates that ensue. No one ever argues what happens after THAT spring progresses …

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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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