make room

In between product photography clients, I sometimes make room to do something I want to do, although I do feel like I'm loosing contact with that part of myself a little. Not a good thing. 

accidental logos

 I wasn't meaning to make anything like a logo when I started down this path, but that's what it wanted to be. I doubt I would ever use them as such because they are a little (forgive my word usage) ballsy for BAC, but I like them nonetheless. Maybe BAC is going toward the ballsy. I don't know. She doesn't regularly consult with me. 

Monumental

I wish I had any kind of words for what happens to me when I see mountains. They are such a monumental symbol of all that I love about nature; both serene and deadly, unmoving and ever changing, home and stranger. I think I'd like to be one someday. 

In my head

I've been working on aspects of this piece for a while now...

As I was sending it to Flickr I began a description that ended up like this...

I have a crush on square crosses, especially the red ones. I think they harken back to a time when I loved to watch MASH as a child, and had complex, very serious thoughts about war. Such a thinker I was.
But, I also think I respond to the harmony of the shape itself... the symmetry, the balance, the simplicity and strength.
All that coupled with the idea of care (medical), in a time of insanity and cruelty (war) is an irresistible contradiction who's offspring is called hope... I can't resist that. 

I had no idea any of that was in my head. I love it when that happens.  

Crushing hard...

...on my CS5 software (Adobe Creative Suite, mostly Illustrator and Photoshop)

Inspired by...

The sound... Mumford and Sons' live album (I found it via Rhapsody but can't seem to find it anywhere else, even the M&S website)

The words... Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. 

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. 

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. 

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. 

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. 

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. 

The sight... of the sea and all the peace that it brings

"As if happily ever after" © 2011 Blue Algae Creative

loving these colors

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