NEWEXPERIMENTAL
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DIGITAL
PHOTOGRAPHIC
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ART
COLLAGE
COLLAGE
http://gerryjoeweisecollage.blogspot.com/
BUSHFIRE Slideshow
http://www.fotothing.com/slideshow.php?id=weisebushfire
SEASIDE Slideshow
http://www.fotothing.com/slideshow.php?id=weiseoceanside
ALL DIGITAL PHOTO
http://www.blognow.com.au/gerryjoeweisephoto
French Web Site
http://blog.ifrance.com/gerryjoeweise-collage
NEW-REALITIES
INTRODUCTION
These "Experimental Digital Photographic Art Collages" are a combination of old-school collage techniques juxtaposed with new-school digital photographic montage computer soft-ware manipulations. A great variety of images can be obtained that exceeds largely the quantity and differences obtained by ancient paste & paint collage skills; but they do not replace older styles - they just coincide with. These Digital Art Collages are based on the "New-Realities" theory series.
DIGITAL COLLAGES
The Artist's Statement
26 April 2006 by Gerry Joe Weise
The Digital Collages from the "New-Realities" use a variety of techniques from the "old-school" montage superimposing to "new-school" computer manipulation of the final image. Landscapes can be looked at from a 2 dimensional to a 3 dimensional view. The "New-Realities" theme is trying to obtain a 4th dimensional aspect, the "inner-soul" of the landscape. Some of the works can be looked at by tipping the image around to its side or by standing-it-up upside down. Other works can be looked at from a topographical view, as if the viewer was airborne. I have always respected collage artwork from Modern Art to Contemporary Art, and while creating these works has been a natural on-going process of great passion and desire, it seems I can finally express myself about nature as a whole. One must note that animals and humans do not appear within these landscapes : earth, water, air and vegetation, overwhelm any chance of an animal form making an appearance, and humans seem to be the intruders. Air has a way of being represented in different densities, different colors : yes air has color and form. Minerals give earth different flavors and odors, water creates division and distance, while vegetation creates time and space. It is impossible to escape nature walled up in a city, and do we have to drown out earthly sounds with our mechanics ? Utopia is for amateurs, the sublime is for the unfit, and to hell with political realism on this planet !
NIGHTSCAPES
NIGHTSCAPES web site
http://www.blognow.com.au/gerryjoeweisephoto/15274/NIGHTSCAPES.html
A PANORAMA OF NIGHTLY DELIGHTS
by Jan Rubin
A native of Sydney, Gerry Joe Weise moved to Europe in1980, at the age of 20. In the late 80s, through his friendship with Jean-Marie Le Sidaner (international French poet), he was invited to poet meetings, happenings, performances, and the Rimbaud Poetry Festival in France.
His poetic "Nightscapes" taken from the "New-Nature / New-Realities", are a new private cosmos that opens up before us in a view, a panorama of nightly delights, under pressure from mortal life on a gravity-bound planet; but still offers an escape. Gerry Joe Weise is dedicated to close observation of nature and detail. He revisits themes such as mountains, plains, trees, water and skies. Weise scans photographic collages of landscape images and digitally manipulates them on his computer. These dark saturated black & white / color photos are riveting and breathtaking.
NIGHTSCAPES
The Artist's Statement
26 April 2006 by Gerry Joe Weise
From the dense and the dark passages found in nocturnal landscapes, one is in waiting. Waiting for the next consequence to happen. Hearing all silence, deafened by the vast spaces becoming claustrophobic, we shall not be the same again. Art has a very long history of evening, nightly, and after dusk works. Creating a mood and pleasure in representing obscurities, and awkward sentiments. These are precisely those moments I have learned to cherish from Prehistoric to Ancient to Modern to Contemporary Artwork. The "Nightscapes" theme I feel, has to have panoramic measurements, to create tension against claustrophobia : a sort of resting against restlessness. Therefore the contradiction is exposed, and we can savor the delicate balance between a panorama wide-open and a small stuffy space. Air has definitely color here ! The "Nightscapes" series use a combination of techniques I used for the "New-Nature" photographs and the "New-Realities" collages, and in doing so, hoping to create nocturnal moods unexploited in the color schemes I used beforehand.
NIGHTSCAPES french / francais
http://blog.ifrance.com/gerryjoeweise-nightscapes
