FIRST POST - INTRODUCTION
I like to think my work is about creativity, as much as it is an exploration, inspired by a lifelong fascination with color and light and honed over the last 17 years into what you will see here.
It is because of an obsessive urge to keep seeking what I find. Each occasion is a new one, a challenge to be even more cognizant, focused and appreciative. Each image is an adventure… and the paradigmatic thaumaturgy of their fusion, a figment of my imagination.
They are the result of vectored mirrored sunlight, streaming through my east facing high rise window, into parabolic mirrors that bounce it around and through a kind of light machine conglomeration of crystals, giant crystal balls, tequila bottles and other glittery things, exciting an adjacent forest of crinkled water bottles, some colored by Russian Easter egg dyes - where the spirits of color and light, gathered to participate in my exploration in appreciation of my knowing they exist, begin to glow to be RECOGNIZED in their ephemeral splendor, offering opportunities to become intimate with them, to immerse myself in their enchantment, to absorb their essence…
IF you have never seen anything like them, it is because nothing else like them exists - at least until now, which I feel gives me license to claim the discovery of a new GENRE in abstract expressionism, so unfamiliar that most do not realize they are looking at a new way of creating abstract expression by imbuing photographic compositions of refracted color and light with personalities.
George O. Jackson de Llano
July 14, 2020
"All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. ... Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.”
Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics
I like to think my work is about creativity, as much as it is an exploration, inspired by a lifelong fascination with color and light and honed over the last 17 years into what you will see here.
It is because of an obsessive urge to keep seeking what I find. Each occasion is a new one, a challenge to be even more cognizant, focused and appreciative. Each image is an adventure… and the paradigmatic thaumaturgy of their fusion, a figment of my imagination.
They are the result of vectored mirrored sunlight, streaming through my east facing high rise window, into parabolic mirrors that bounce it around and through a kind of light machine conglomeration of crystals, giant crystal balls, tequila bottles and other glittery things, exciting an adjacent forest of crinkled water bottles, some colored by Russian Easter egg dyes - where the spirits of color and light, gathered to participate in my exploration in appreciation of my knowing they exist, begin to glow to be RECOGNIZED in their ephemeral splendor, offering opportunities to become intimate with them, to immerse myself in their enchantment, to absorb their essence…
IF you have never seen anything like them, it is because nothing else like them exists - at least until now, which I feel gives me license to claim the discovery of a new GENRE in abstract expressionism, so unfamiliar that most do not realize they are looking at a new way of creating abstract expression by imbuing photographic compositions of refracted color and light with personalities.
George O. Jackson de Llano
July 14, 2020
"All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. ... Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.”
Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics
