(and) In the beginning …,

… there was a new realization. While struggling to place digital imaging within some context set by the classical and pictorial fine arts, and while forgetting chunks of what had seemingly been appreciated no more than six months earlier, there could be an advantage to writing things down! So, this is it – an attempt to build an online repository for thoughts and observations, maybe just my own, or maybe (even) later including some shared by others. The thoughts and observations themselves follow the byline given in the header above “photography as, and into, art”.  And the byway to be followed itself thus does not include the word digital. There is, in this day and age, simply no need to add that. Absolutely everything to be seen and read about here does have digital processing at its core.

However, there already arrives the very first paradox. Whilst digital engines running complex software routines have become invaluable generators in creating both two- and three-dimensional artwork, the Internet – as a sort semaphore driven by the same engine – does not do justice to the artwork itself. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to appreciate art via the tools of the web. Even true size and scale are hard to grasp, let alone the nuances of hue, reflectance, texture, etc.

But recall: these are notes on a journey. And though details of the thoughts and observations to be argued and presented are important, they don’t always need to be illustrated by a full work or image. Hopefully what will follow in the next posting is a sort of deconstruction of a current project of my own (though only if I get to master what appear to be some of the more complex components of the WordPress blogging arsenal) … please stay tuned.