It’s sort of funny. I’ve been studying certain locations in Brooklyn since starting omEGG a year and a half ago…. and now I’ve been returning and blogging them which means a lot of photo studies and that whole time i’ve been working on this little tryptique which is sitting over the t.v. so I can look at it whenever I look at movies, etc (today was Mr. Arkadian). I try not to look at the photos and videos, etc when I work on these pictures for fear of falling into a traditional perspective and just copying the camera view. Instead I try to remember the actual place, remember the scene from omEGG and then remember the recent blog studies. They are in this way informed by the photographic process, but not taken directly from any one photragraph, or video still.
Like some of the installations at IT IN space, I try to jam these pictures together in the manner of cutting film. Here is a large study I did after Arc Along The Watchtower, which also comes out of this distilling from the moving image towards the “active still painting.”
I am also travelling with a few sketchbooks and yesterday when my dogs gave out after seventy, or eighty blocks of walking, I hopped on the subway andI quickly drew the Verranzano before my stop… wondering if the fatigue and rush would give some sense of an immediate reaction to this modern masterpiece of elegance.
