SEEING CREATIVELY

When asked why she painted her flowers so large, Georgia O’Keeffe once said, “Nobody sees a flower, really. It is so small that we haven’t time, and to see it takes time. So I’ll paint what I see, what the flower is to me, but I’ll paint it big, and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.”

 

That’s what abstract photography is to me.

 

It's the art of creating an image using color, form, texture, and light, often without a clearly focused view of the subject matter. It stretches your imagination as your mind attempts to place what it sees into a 'cubby hole' of understanding.

 

When we turn our eyes toward a photograph that is not instantly recognizable or obvious, we expand our minds to see beyond reality. And we're forced to take our time to see it.

 

Time very well spent, I would think.