Gary Thaxton
Hands and Necklace, Photograph, 16” x 20”, $350
“Time is the artist’s paradox which allows them to conceive and create yet another paradox through the mind’s eye of a “visual life” in art.”
Photography, is my “visual art life” though momentary in the entirety of my life. It has become a meditative, visionary addiction and craving for the perfect photographic image. That pursuit has produced questions in my soul. Can a single image stand alone in the perfection and context of my experienced pre-rendered moment? Where is the perceived rendered photographic moment in my life now? And did the moment ever exist at all?
It must have, I have the photograph, The carbon ink on a white paper canvas to testify.
On the question of stand alone in the experienced perfection of the moment is for the viewer, and some viewers will say yes and some may say no. Now next question, where is the perceived photographic moment, and did it exist at all, and that is a paradox. Time and the photographer is the contradiction . The image was painted by the contradiction to a light sensitive material, but has been changed , altered and transformed by the intervention of the photographer’s “mind’s eye”, for the next step in the result of a “perfect photographic image”.
In my quest for the perfect image I discovered a new way to create a photographic image that I call “Digital Light Drawings”. Photoshop is my digital darkroom and the tool I use to create these unusual images. So I hope you enjoy the simplicity and complexity of the visual journey. Thank you!
For more information about Gary and his work please visit his website.
Orchid With Resident, Photograph, 14” x 18”, $350
Nantahala Dream, Photograph, 16” x 20”, $375
Watercolors, Photograph, 11” x 14”, $250
Coleus, Photograph, 14” x 18”, $350
Circle Abstract, Photograph, 11” x 14”, $250