A moment captured without being experienced is one as foreign as another man's dreams.
I am an optician by trade, artist by design, photographer by choice. A goal, in working with visually-challenged clients, is to improve independence by empowering with knowledge. As an artist, I provide understanding to those who formerly overlooked beauty that they might know how to see it...
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I am an optician by trade, artist by design, photographer by choice. A goal, in working with visually-challenged clients, is to improve independence by empowering with knowledge. As an artist, I provide understanding to those who formerly overlooked beauty that they might know how to see it more abundantly and more deeply. With photography I capture the "unseen familiar" - details and perspectives many fail to notice - and present fresh understanding of even the most mundane environment.
It is notable that what knowledge passed between individuals is limited by the giver's effort to educate and the receiver's aptitude for learning. What lies in between is the delivery medium. If that medium, the language, is confusing, the message is entangled and the two people may become embroiled in a battle over interpretation. Visual art as a medium can complicate or simplify, depending on the artist's experience as both messenger and recipient, and a desire to confound or enlighten. The magic, as an artist, is not to apply paint to canvas, but rather engage in the viewer both an understanding of the art's intention and the will to be impressed by it.
One is not truly viewing art unless one is willing to be changed by what they see. One does not seek change without having a need for it.
What I create with my clients is a relationship between the visual and the perceived. I provide images that create new life experience and, hopefully, may retroactively enhance the remembered. My camera serves as a vessel through which that information flows. I interpret and redirect its signal that I may most accurately represent what I see and what my client wants to. As eyes are merely light harvesters, the end goal of any project is to play visual chef to those minds tasting of my entrees of contrast and hue.
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