Mark Hampton
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Untitled 3 – M Hampton
Untitled 3 – M Hampton
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I fear the subject matter has not repaid the effort, art, and resources lavished upon it. Minimalism, and I think this is an example, is a high stakes game where less sometimes doesn't amount to more. But that's no reason to quit; just a spur to go at it again.
Maris,
It might be that this is a good example of iterative work being needed, perhaps and the image is not completed when seen in the viewfinder in the presence of so much more or what might be included but is not. Only when the latent image appears and one meets it like a "pen-pal" one has corresponded with for years and when one meets them for the first time, that relationship has to be retuned to the true beings that each person represents.
I think the image is within each of the current frames.
Asher
Here, in Mark's photograph of a textured surface, there are many opportunities for creative work. It's just hard and does not come easily. But one must be at least open to such possibilities.
You have taken time out of your life to look into images that may or may not be intreasting and for that i am indebted.
I had a deffanate idea when I set about planning and making these images - it has not changed but the reditions that you have shown have opened up some further avenues of exploration.
I also warn you not to be discouraged by those who will immediately reject such works. Audience and context are often extremely important for supporting such abstracted presentations, as is medium......
p.s. Titles, more often than not, greatly diminish such work. Unless you are genuinely and premeditatively trying to express a specific concept, skip 'em. Leave it untitled. Imagine, for example, if you chose to title the first image "Goats at the Pond". Now everyone is trying to see goats and feeling like jackasses when they can't.
The natural first human tendency for viewing anything is to answer the question, "What is it?". The joy of such work is to visually answer back, "What do you want it to be?".
I'm fascinated by what's hidden in things we think we've chosen for some other reason.......
So what was that idea? We, OTOH, have just the picture and without a title, the meanings are unlimited. I do prefer titles for that reason.
For me, the second picture, [which I processed from a fragment of the RAW file] , can only be the war in the Dardanelles. I'm stunned by the imagery hidden in your work! Giving no title here gave me permission and license to freely look up my own libraries of knowledge, feelings and relevance. Thanks for that opportunity.