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October 18th, 2014 - 11:58 AM
Sometimes I get inspired by the work of others. I will see someone else's work and think "Oh, I like what they did here!" It's a treatment or use of colors or design. And I try those ideas out on my own. An art instructor told me once that each artist has their own color palette, the shades and hues that resonate with them. As I look back at my own work I do see certain colors that emerge. And so I try these different ideas with my own palette, or with my own design and what results is something entirely different for me.
This picture of impatiens for example was the result of this process. I photographed the impatiens in my own yard but placed them in an arrangement like one I had seen elsewhere. I used my own color sense and the result was something unexpected, something new for me. A mixture of digital (yuck, I hate that word) and photograph that seems to mix alright together. If innovation is using old things in new ways then, for me, this is innovation. Of course, beauty is subjective, but I find it pleasing enough. But even more fascinating for me is that the idea of what my work is changes as I try these new things. It stretches me in ways I might not otherwise have considered. That alone makes the process worth it.
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