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The Mists Of Time

6/18/2020

What became the title of this work was a phrase from a news interview this week in which a reporter asked, “I know the beginnings of this conflict are lost in the mists of time, but why did this episode happen now”?

The point: behavior often emanates from generations of enculturation, but why are you doing what you’re doing now? Why are you thinking what you’re thinking today? Have we no freer will than a domino in a line of dominos falling in order?

The photographic capture this work is based on contrasts hard architectural lines partially obscured by free-flowing landscape and sunlight. Human dogma against a transcendent flow. With artistic license thrown in. If the shoe fits …

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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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The Mists Of Time

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