I delight in conjuring a range of colors and textures through a technique I discovered by accident and developed over time, a process elegantly simple and endlessly complex. I blur a digitized photographic negative and layer it with a positive, continuing to digitally layer certain resulting images. A familiar object might become an abstract form, lines form, smooth surfaces break up, colors shift or blend.
Arthur Paxton: Rainy Street in Center City Philly
Don’t mistake this image for a manipulated photograph: the warping and distortion are 100% natural! Thank you rain on an unwipered windshield.
My work has involved photographing people with significant forays into photographing fine art for museums, galleries and artists. My own fine art has often explored layering positive and negative versions of a digitized photograph to achieve surprising transformations. But this piece simply exploits the wonders of light bent by water.
Cautious but craving normality, I chose this street scene featuring regular open-faced people moving freely. For some reason they seem to be moving at a good clip away from me, but the cop is under control even as the dog lunges at him. This is an iPhone capture of a Saturday afternoon on a city street about 8 months ago. How normal.
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