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"Asleep on the Street" by Frank Winters
21.5 x 14.5 inches
photography on panel
$350
Artist Statement:
"This world we live in is but thickened light." Emerson
Quotidian, liminal, transcendent; these are states I see in the world as my perception and the light vacillates. Light has the power to give the quotidian transcendent properties. I seek the surreal, capturing that quality is my goal.
In my photography, I use light to cast the ordinary in extraordinary terms. When light is unusually focused, or especially diffused, or particularly brilliant I pounce. It is a process of triangulation – object(s), geometry, light – when these three factors converge. I seize the fleeting opportunity.
My work is inspired by poetry and Transcendental writing such as the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote above and this one by a relative of Ralph Waldo:
“Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen-thousand-foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.” Henry Peter Emerson. "
About the Artist:
Frank Winters is an award winning fine art photographer. When he lived in Massachusetts, he showed work at The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, The Cotuit Center for the Arts, The Miller White Fine Arts Gallery and other Cape Cod locations. In Olympia he has shown at The Leo Fuller Gallery, Browsers Book Shop, CatMa Gallery, among other locations. His photography is influenced by his love of poetry and the visual arts, particularly abstract painting. “This world we live in is but thickened light” a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is his mantra.