{Abstract}
Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials.
The choice of our Share Six theme this month was mine. Those of you who know my work probably guessed as much! I am all about the abstract!
Changes in our life circumstances last year led my photography down a new and unexpected path. I had been using double exposures to capture more than a perfect representation of the scene, so I guess you could say there were indicators to the direction I was going. But I came to find myself learning about our new home and processing these changes for our family by experimenting more and more with in-camera creative techniques. As I reflect on it now, perhaps it has become more a means of escapism than acceptance. But that said, I definitely settled here faster than when we moved from the UK to Arizona, so it can’t have been such a bad thing. I feel like I understand the light and surroundings here, even though it is all more alien than I could have ever imagined, more intimately than anything before.
This month I could share any number of images from the last year with you; almost everything I create at the moment is abstract in some form or other. But photography is the one area of my life where I push myself without fear or hesitation, and I love having the excuse to try something new, so that is what I did. This was a little experimentation and some fun results:
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I love that everyone will see something different in these images, and that is what I truly love about abstract imagery and the direction my art is taking. There is no right or wrong; mood, attitude and personal experience all feed into your interpretation. You don’t have to like anything that I show you, but if it can make you think, make you feel, make you question why, I call that a win.
Thank you for joining us for another month at Share Six. Please continue around the circle by clicking HERE. I can’t wait to see how the exceptionally talented Kathy of KG Ledbetter Photography interpreted this month’s theme.
Join us for this month’s theme by posting your {Abstract} images on our Facebook page at SHARE SIX and to our Instagram gallery, by tagging #sharesix and #sharesix_abstract. A new theme will be posted on 6th July.
