Below are some images that resonated with both the photographer and their audience in a recent Emotional Attachment challenge over in "A Photographer's Craft".  There's no right or wrong way in how you should feel when viewing a photographic piece - the ideal would be to feel.

"Sisters Two" by Adrian Rachele

The look of despair and sense of helplessness is apparent in this photograph taken after visiting Auschwitz.  The heavy shadows, the play on light, the expression and the Black & White treatment all convey that deep sense of sadness.

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"On Her Way" by Sue Wickham

Quite a contrast with the first image - this glorious bride has that look of expectation and excitement in her face. I can remember my own wedding day when I look at this beautiful bride - and I remember all the emotions that go with such an exciting day.  Sue Wickham has captured the moment and beautifully edited this image that will resonate with other brides and their parents.  It's the moment the bride begins her new life with great expectation!

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"Waiting to say goodbye" by Dana DiPasquale

A photograph of an inanimate object is sometimes all that's needed  to open the floodgates of memories from another time. Dana DiPasquale while visiting family for a funeral captured this image - anything to keep busy while trying to forget the sadness surrounding the family gathering.  The lone chair, the warmth exuding from this image and the way it has been portrayed shows the richness of family life.

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"Alone in paradise" by Debbie Black

The image of paradise can take many forms, afterall we're all different, so what is paradise to one, may not be to another.  This image taken on Michaelmas Cay on the Great Barrier Reef holds great signifance to Debbie Black, the photographer.  Firstly, taken whilst on honeymoon - paradise in itself! And secondly the location is truly spectacular.  You can feel the warmth of the sand, the coolness of the salt water, the gentle sea breeze, and the lone figure on the beach really does make you feel as though you are alone in that paradise.

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"Beautiful Creation" by lallymac

"Home is where the heart is" and for lallymac, this dawn image will always remind her of  happy times and new beginnings.  New beginnings as a photographer in capturing such an image with sharp silhouettes and gorgeous warm tones of morning.

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There would be no greater compliment to a photographer than to let them know "you get their image" - their purpose of recoding that image, that moment - has been achieved.  Go and view these artists' on-line galleries, and tell them you "get their images"!

Portrait of My Life

This photo is titled, Portrait of My Life. I took this photo with the intentions of using it as a symbolic metaphor of my life as of today. Everything you see in this photo has a metaphorical meaning. Right now, it may just look like a simple crack in a wall, but I can assure you, there’s more to it then that. And after you read the significant meanings of these symbols, you’ll understand why I titled this photo “Portrait of My Life.”

As you can see, there are 4 major elements in this photo. They are, the half in darkness, the crack, the step, and last, but certainly not least, the half overwhelmed in light. Their meanings are as follows:

The Half in Darkness

This is by far, the simplest symbol. It simply reflects my past.

The Crack

In The Half in Darkness, (in my past) you’ll notice a large crack. This crack represents the physical and emotional pain during my 7 operations (in which 3 I was awake during the surgery), during 2006. I spent over 9 months in a hospital bed. I spent my mornings, waking up with tubes connected to my arms, back, and stomach. I spent my days attempting to swallow my 5 medications, each with its own unique overpowering pungent taste. And I’ve spent my nights, listening to the monotonous beeping of my heart monitor, and the heart monitor of the weary infant next to me, praying to God that they both sustain their healthy, rhythmic beat.

Although all of this pain is in my past, it has made a significant impact on my life. It has made me stronger, and more appreciative towards life.

The Step

This step is a metaphor for the step I took on September 10^th, 2007, my first day back at school. Even though I had only been released from my shackles of tubes only a month before, I decided on that day, that my time of suffering was over. So I surprised everyone by getting up, getting dressed and starting a new chapter in my life. That was the step that finally lead me to the light.

The Half in Light

This brighter side of the wall represents the goodness in my life today, and also my future. I have met so many great people, and made many incredible friends now that I’m back. I’m now perfectly healthy, and I’m working very hard to catch up in school. This September, I will finally be a senior at Banning High. And in June of 2009, I will graduate, and pursue a career in Photography, Journalism, or The Music Industry.

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When it rains it storms so they say. It seems all at once I had run out of packaging cardboard and perhaps that is why my sales slowed this week. I believe you emit those things via energy fields to the world. I am now prepared again. Bring it on Baby! I salvage excess clean cardboard from local businesses and cut it down to the four standard sizes I need for packaging orders.

I filled two large orders this week, one of which is 24 originals for matting, framing and exhibit at the Klausen Gallery which will be for sale during the City's next Gallery Hop on August 8th, 2008. The Klausen Gallery is located at 106 Prince William Street in Uptown Saint John, New Brunswick. I had attended the last gallery hop and not in my wildest dreams did I think my art would be included in next hop.

Jorgen Klausen is the owner and he is one brilliant photographer.

I was also contacted by OrangeWillow about sending reproductions on consignment down to the Pivot Gallery and Boutique in Kentucky that she owns and operates. You can follow the developing story here on her blog. I shipped 18 reproductions out on Wednesday to her.

This is exciting for me. The first two, of hopefully many more gallery contacts.

I may have been creating art since the age of four however it's only in the last few years that I've begun to be recognized for it. I am a beginner at best when it comes to galleries and selling my art. I am learning and doing the best I can as a I go.

^{Image Credits
• 1. Print selection sent to Pivot
• 2. Cutting cardboard on my deck
• 3. Miniatures originals with certificates to the Klausen Gallery.
• 4. Four larger originals with certificates to Klausen.}

"Sister Two" by Adrian Rachele

"This image was taken of my sister-in-law after our visit to Auschwitz.
We went to a bar in the old Jewish quarter of Krakow, to have a drink and reflect.
I think this image best displays our feelings at the time. A feeling none of us had ever experienced before. To have been, too see, to smell such a place of despair and death." - Adrian Rachele

"Waiting to Say Goodbye"
by Dana DiPasquale
"This photograph has a very special meaning to me. I was visiting with my aunt and uncle, the family gathered, waiting to attend funeral services for a beloved uncle that has passed away. The night before we did our best to enjoy each other’s company and joke around like we usually do, but mostly we were just trying to get through the night so we could say our goodbyes in the morning. I saw these antique children’s chairs that my aunt had and decided to spend some time taking photos of them to get my mind off of things. I brought the chair out to the garage so that the smooth, rich wood would be in stark contrast to the rough, stained concrete floor. A running theme throughout my photography is viewing objects from new perspectives, so as I stood on a ladder that I found and tried taking photographs without falling, my uncle walked by and laughed at me. “You’re taking a picture of a chair?” he said. I told him “You just wait – this will be a masterpiece!” but I am pretty sure he didn’t believe me. The photograph turned out exactly the way I had envisoned, a sense of being in a room but high above it like an omnipotent source, alone, expecting someone to be there who isn’t, a bit of a faded memory. This fine art piece hangs on my own wall, and I smile when I see it for it is a reminder of the family I love." - Dana DiPasquale

"On Her Way"
by Sue Wickham
"THIS WAS THE LAST PHOTO I TOOK OF OUR DAUGHTER BEFORE SHE LEFT IN THE CAR ON HER WAY TO THE CHURCH WITH HER DAD…

And she is on her way, The veil conceals a single tear, Her Father holds a shaking hand and the limousine pulls away.
They talk of nothing really, “You’ll always be my little girl”, he says, as they pull into the Church, and the veil conceals a single tear.
The organist plays, and everyone stands, This time she holds her Dad’s shaking hand, There is no veil to conceal his tears, and the longest walk of his life begins.
“Who gives this Woman”, a nod of consent, A secret glance, and exchange of vows, For now and forever, for better for worse, And she is on her way…" -Sue Wickham

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And here's the artist herself, during our recent trip to Sullivan's Island, SC:

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A practice one while I regroup after failed efforts. Art sometimes makes me want to set myself on fire and jump off a cliff.
Oil on canvas 11x14"

Digital painting of an abstract seaside beach in bright, bold color.

on seaside beaches
beauty is hidden from view
movement happens here

-- genece hamby, contemporary digital artist & poet
To purchase Seaside Beach, visit: http://www.shibuistudio.com/seasidebeach.html

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Well, a small section of a work in progress- the bit that can be caught on the scanner bed. 

I'm working on this painting for a politically-themed show. Originally sparked by Mark Twain's brilliant short work The War Prayer, I found myself looking through a box of my grandfather's World War I stuff for inspiration. Among a bleak report from the division sanitary inspector ( the unwrapped French bread was loved by American soldiers but always getting unloaded on the muddy ground) , a brief history of the operations of the 1st division, and a June 19, 1918 memo on the exorbitant price of French foodstuffs, I found a poem. 52 type-written lines organized in 3 stanzas are written about "The Other Bird," the guy on the supply side who wishes he was fighting. The last half of the last stanza:

I crave to take these burning youths

By their soft and tender hands

And lead 'em to the scene of hell 

That's bound by moral hands.

But it's too late now and they're going back

These boys from the S.O.S.

They'll be our heroes from "Over there,"

And we'll stay till we rot, I guess.

Hello you beautiful people!!!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

YAY!! :O)

This is the first in the series celebrating NYC and the alphabet.

I frolick through New York City and thru the alphabet.

Come celebrate the fun and beautiful NYC and practice the alphabet.

The Letters A B & C will be rolled out on Monday!

I am so happy to share this series with you!!

It is fun frolicking and finding new ways to Jump throught the alphabet and the city.

SHout OuT to Wisdom!!

"Pride leads only to shame; it is wise to be humble."

Proverbs 11:2

Thank you for spending some of your week with me!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Love

Chiz :OP

 



Falling…
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.
And getting hurt
From depending
On someone
Who is also weak
To hold on
To

“No person is responsible
       for your own happiness…
                                              only you.”

I love this painting, it was created by an artist from California named Annie Dover

If you study her work online you will quickly see that she is a master of mood and using color to evoke emotion. Many of her paintings of people who seem utterly alone in a populated place. Weird to think you can be surround by so many other souls and yet feel that alone.

In The Offering I have a difficult time deciding if the two people in the painting are together, I think they are together because of their body language.

This painting is just amazing and most people, when they first see it assume it's a photograph printed on linen.

When I went to piok up the painting after the show, the Gallery Owner Martine told me that Annie had left a note for me. In the eveelope were a couple of photographs her husband had taken of the Annie and I talking at the show as well as wonderful note.

Ed Ruscha is one of those artists that many collectors would sell their grandmothers for but thanks to Printed Matter, nanna can continue to enjoy her twilight years in peace (for now). As one of the founding fathers of the Pop Art movement along with the likes of Warhol, Lichtenstein and Thiebaud, Ruscha is undoubtedly one of the most influential figures of his generation. Ruscha has not, however, received the same level of recognition as many of his contemporaries such as Warhol and Lichtenstein is consequently considered to be relatively undervalued. Although the value of Rushcha's work has increased significantly since the retrospective of his work in 2004 at the Whitney it would seem that there is still plenty of room for upward movement judging by the prices being achieved by Ruscha's equally influential peers. If the increase in demand for his work of the last couple of years is anything to go by (see price index below), prices should continue to increase as recognition of his contribution to the history of art increases.

The Ruscha print being sold by Printed Matter is titled Little Mexican Church on a Windowsill and is a signed and numbered edition of 20. At $4500, this print is a little more expensive than the works I usually suggest but it is worth every cent and then some. Just goes to show that you don't have to sell a kidney to invest in a modern master. To purchase this awesome work go here

Ed Ruscha
Little Mexican Church on a Windowsill
New York, : Printed Matter, Inc.. 1970/2007

Synopsis: Digital Pigmented Photograph, 10 x 10 inches (image size 6 1/2 x 8 inches)

Category: Printed Matter Edition
Edition 20
Signed: Signed and Numbered

Price Info: $4,500.00

image: Little Mexican Church on a Windowsill by Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha Price index from artprice.com

copyright by artprice.com © Thierry Ehrmann 1987-2008

Basis 100 in 1997 (For all categories) (Updated April 2008)

100 EUR invested in 1997 in a work of Edward Joseph RUSCHA (1937) have an average value of 1326 EUR in May 2008

**Nicholas Forrest is an art market analyst, art critic and journalist based in Sydney, Australia. He is the founder of http://www.artmarketblog.com, writes the art column for the magazine Antiques and Collectibles for Pleasure and Profit and contributes to many other publications

On June 1, 2007 Barbara Hashimoto, Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago-based architecture firm BauerLatoza Studio, asked the sixteen staff members to set aside junk mail they received at the office address. For an entire year Hashimoto incorporated the daily hand-shredding of this unsolicited material into her studio practice. At the end of twelve months she had amassed more than 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material, constituting the amount of junk mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to this one small business.

The genesis of this project was inspired by a number of mind-boggling statistics: AMERICANS RECEIVE 77 BILLION PIECES OF JUNK MAIL ANNUALLY and THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WILL SPEND EIGHT MONTHS OF HIS/HER LIFE HANDLING JUNK MAIL.  Statistics like these have taken hold of the artist both visually and physically.

Hashimoto’s labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations presented in Los Angeles and Chicago. Now under the sponsorship of the Chicago Arts District and Podmarjersky, Inc., BARBARA HASHIMOTO: White Trash & Junk Mail is envisioned as an evolving presentation with the year-long shredded collection changing, sometimes on a weekly basis. The public is encouraged to view this process anytime through the 45-foot floor-to-ceiling storefront windows. In the evenings the exhibition will be lit for viewing.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:

JUNK MAIL LANDSCAPES
July 11 – September 13
Guest Artist | Michael Kozien | sound and video

JUNK MAIL INTERIORS
September 26 – October 25
38th Annual Pilsen East Artist’s Open House | September 26 – 28

JUNK MAIL 101
November 1 – 31
Guest Artist | R. O’Donnell | performance

JUNK MAIL CHRISTMAS
December 1 – 31
Reception | Friday, 6 – 10 PM | December 12

Barbara Hashimoto’s sculpture, installation, and performance work has been presented throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East.  It is in more than 250 public and private collections including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch Collection). 

Previously based in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hashimoto relocated to Chicago in 2006 where she is Artist-in-Residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multi-disciplinary architectural design firm. Educated at Yale, she was also apprentice to Junko Yamada (Saitama, Japan), and artist-in-residence under “Intangible Cultural Asset”, Minoru Fujimori (Shikoku, Japan) and at Umdang Ceramics (Dan Kwain, Thailand). She studied dance in New York with Merc Cunningham and Meredith Monk, and butoh with Iwani Masaki inTokyo.

Her most recent exhibitions include a seventeen years retrospective at Dubhe Carreño Gallery (reviewed by Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, February 2008), and Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail project at LA Contemporary (reviewed by Kirsten Swenson in Art in America, April 2008). Currently her work is on view at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan in Your Documents Please, an exhibition which will later travel to Yokohama, Berlin, Budapest, Bratislava, and Guadalajara.

www.barbarahashimoto.com

http://r-productions.com/?s=barbara+hashimoto

contact@r-productions.com

* Photo: Archie FlorCruz, www.whateverland.com

On June 1, 2007 Barbara Hashimoto, Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago-based architecture firm BauerLatoza Studio, asked the sixteen staff members to set aside junk mail they received at the office address. For an entire year Hashimoto incorporated the daily hand-shredding of this unsolicited material into her studio practice. At the end of twelve months she had amassed more than 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material, constituting the amount of junk mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to this one small business.

The genesis of this project was inspired by a number of mind-boggling statistics: AMERICANS RECEIVE 77 BILLION PIECES OF JUNK MAIL ANNUALLY and THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WILL SPEND EIGHT MONTHS OF HIS/HER LIFE HANDLING JUNK MAIL.  Statistics like these have taken hold of the artist both visually and physically.

Hashimoto’s labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations presented in Los Angeles and Chicago. Now under the sponsorship of the Chicago Arts District and Podmarjersky, Inc., BARBARA HASHIMOTO: White Trash & Junk Mail is envisioned as an evolving presentation with the year-long shredded collection changing, sometimes on a weekly basis. The public is encouraged to view this process anytime through the 45-foot floor-to-ceiling storefront windows. In the evenings the exhibition will be lit for viewing.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:

JUNK MAIL LANDSCAPES
July 11 – September 13
Guest Artist | Michael Kozien | sound and video

JUNK MAIL INTERIORS
September 26 – October 25
38th Annual Pilsen East Artist’s Open House | September 26 – 28

JUNK MAIL 101
November 1 – 31
Guest Artist | R. O’Donnell | performance

JUNK MAIL CHRISTMAS
December 1 – 31
Reception | Friday, 6 – 10 PM | December 12

Barbara Hashimoto’s sculpture, installation, and performance work has been presented throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East.  It is in more than 250 public and private collections including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch Collection). 

Previously based in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hashimoto relocated to Chicago in 2006 where she is Artist-in-Residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multi-disciplinary architectural design firm. Educated at Yale, she was also apprentice to Junko Yamada (Saitama, Japan), and artist-in-residence under “Intangible Cultural Asset”, Minoru Fujimori (Shikoku, Japan) and at Umdang Ceramics (Dan Kwain, Thailand). She studied dance in New York with Merc Cunningham and Meredith Monk, and butoh with Iwani Masaki inTokyo.

Her most recent exhibitions include a seventeen years retrospective at Dubhe Carreño Gallery (reviewed by Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, February 2008), and Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail project at LA Contemporary (reviewed by Kirsten Swenson in Art in America, April 2008). Currently her work is on view at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan in Your Documents Please, an exhibition which will later travel to Yokohama, Berlin, Budapest, Bratislava, and Guadalajara.

www.barbarahashimoto.com

http://r-productions.com/?s=barbara+hashimoto

contact@r-productions.com

* Photo: Archie FlorCruz, www.whateverland.com

On June 1, 2007 Barbara Hashimoto, Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago-based architecture firm BauerLatoza Studio, asked the sixteen staff members to set aside junk mail they received at the office address. For an entire year Hashimoto incorporated the daily hand-shredding of this unsolicited material into her studio practice. At the end of twelve months she had amassed more than 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material, constituting the amount of junk mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to this one small business.

The genesis of this project was inspired by a number of mind-boggling statistics: AMERICANS RECEIVE 77 BILLION PIECES OF JUNK MAIL ANNUALLY and THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WILL SPEND EIGHT MONTHS OF HIS/HER LIFE HANDLING JUNK MAIL.  Statistics like these have taken hold of the artist both visually and physically.

Hashimoto’s labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations presented in Los Angeles and Chicago. Now under the sponsorship of the Chicago Arts District and Podmarjersky, Inc., BARBARA HASHIMOTO: White Trash & Junk Mail is envisioned as an evolving presentation with the year-long shredded collection changing, sometimes on a weekly basis. The public is encouraged to view this process anytime through the 45-foot floor-to-ceiling storefront windows. In the evenings the exhibition will be lit for viewing.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:

JUNK MAIL LANDSCAPES
July 11 – September 13
Guest Artist | Michael Kozien | sound and video

JUNK MAIL INTERIORS
September 26 – October 25
38th Annual Pilsen East Artist’s Open House | September 26 – 28

JUNK MAIL 101
November 1 – 31
Guest Artist | R. O’Donnell | performance

JUNK MAIL CHRISTMAS
December 1 – 31
Reception | Friday, 6 – 10 PM | December 12

Barbara Hashimoto’s sculpture, installation, and performance work has been presented throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East.  It is in more than 250 public and private collections including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch Collection). 

Previously based in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hashimoto relocated to Chicago in 2006 where she is Artist-in-Residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multi-disciplinary architectural design firm. Educated at Yale, she was also apprentice to Junko Yamada (Saitama, Japan), and artist-in-residence under “Intangible Cultural Asset”, Minoru Fujimori (Shikoku, Japan) and at Umdang Ceramics (Dan Kwain, Thailand). She studied dance in New York with Merc Cunningham and Meredith Monk, and butoh with Iwani Masaki inTokyo.

Her most recent exhibitions include a seventeen years retrospective at Dubhe Carreño Gallery (reviewed by Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, February 2008), and Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail project at LA Contemporary (reviewed by Kirsten Swenson in Art in America, April 2008). Currently her work is on view at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan in Your Documents Please, an exhibition which will later travel to Yokohama, Berlin, Budapest, Bratislava, and Guadalajara.

www.barbarahashimoto.com

http://r-productions.com/?s=barbara+hashimoto

contact@r-productions.com

* Photo: Archie FlorCruz, www.whateverland.com