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Replacement Must Become

1/10/2019

I love working in florals! A flower is the natural world in abstract - automatic art. But as such, is often overlooked as too commonplace. That's too bad because even the simplest flower is a mystery of lines and color and shadow which, with the right lighting, conveys so much mood and emotion.

This particular species, which I believe is a day lily, blooms all year, new blooms replacing dying ones. And thus we have the new year replacing the old. A burst of hope lighting up the cold winter, while only barely obscuring of what, over the coming months, it must become. Like every year before it, tired and forgettable. Like every flower that blooms. Like everyone of us who tries to change the world.

Oh, c'mon, I'm not TRYING to be depressing!

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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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