Grounding?

Why do we take photos? As mentioned before, I’ve always enjoyed producing ‘images’. I started as an apprentice graphic artist. I studied creativity and visual art at degree level. I worked as a commercial graphic designer for many years. ‘Graphics’ refers to any visual representation of data. As a creative I try to represent things in a new affecting way.

In his celebrated work ‘Ways of Seeing‘, John Berger said “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”

What do we see? What do we know? Do we ‘see’ it before we think it, or do we ‘think’ it before it’s seen?

Grounding

Nowadays I continue to play with images (imagine) as a hobby, as a release; a way to ground myself in the world around me.

Personally, my everyday perception of things often tends to be either under- or over-saturated; the data in my head sparks and whirls and often ‘does not compute’.

I often capture images in-passing, and quickly render them on my phone to try to reflect the feelings and thoughts of the moment.

Here’s a scattering of images produced on-the-fly over the last few weeks;