Color Theory

With these pictures, I‘m experimenting with color transformations. Many of them began with geometric objects painted in primary colors (yellow, blue & red) which I photographed three different times in various arrangements. A composite of these exposures yields cubistic kaleidoscopes of colors and shapes. Primary colors give way to secondary, tertiary colors and beyond. Because I keep the table and platforms fixed in the same place for each exposure, pictorially they remain solid and real. I like the way my pictures here suggest a mix of conventional solid reality with surreal invention. Taking this idea further, I used primary color liquids and placed them in jars within jars to show something of color theory in action. I never formally studied color in painting or photography; my approach with this work is to dwell in that colorful world while remaining playful - maybe the way a kid might be inclined to do.

Inspirations: Seurat, Mondrian, Rothko, Josef and Anni Albers, Sol Lewitt and Bridget Riley; Stained Glass Windows.

“The real is only the base. But it is the base.” – Wallace Stevens

“As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again...” – Josef Albers

“If you can allow color to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behavior, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.” – Bridget Riley