I am in the last full day of preparing my work for my show, Home+Land, for the West End Gallery before delivering it tomorrow. This last day is always one filled with a great sense of relief and just a bit of anticipation as I begin to envision the whole of it in the gallery. Over the last several days, I’ve began to feel very good about this group and am eager to see it hanging together.
But this morning I didn’t want to think about it at all and scanned some of my favorite sites to see what’s new. Well, new to me. I went back to the National Geographic site and came across some photos by a San Francisco based photographer named Jassen T. I wish I had more info to share on him but his work on the Nat Geo site is great, mainly aerial imagery including the one above, a shot looking down on Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Love the jewel-like colors and the organic flow of the forms. Just a great image.
Another of his aerial shots is the one at the bottom of a salt marsh in the San Francisco Bay. It has a very painterly look, reminding me in some ways of another Bay area artist, Wayne Thiebaud. I find myself constantly moving my eyes back to this image, taking in the forms. I know what it is in reality but my mind wants to continuously interpret in many other ways. It just sparks all sorts of thoughts which must be the sign of a good image.
Thanks, Jassen T., for the great images. They were very refreshing this morning. Hope to see more of your work in the future.
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