Looking at one photograph at a time
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 7608 copyright 2012/2022 Douglas Stockdale Just as Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 became a date in infamy to a mid-twentieth century generation, the attack on American democracy on January 6th, 2021 is a date of infamy for a twenty-first century generation. On both of these days, American democracy was suddenly and... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 103246 (Pathway Ahead) copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - ____ Usually during the time of the holidays between Christmas and New Years I find it to be a great time for self-reflection on what has this past year brought and what might be in store for the year ahead. Normally this would be... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 1031 copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale I had an opportunity to participate a couple of days ago in a pop-up exhibition and print critique at the Irvine Fine Arts Center (IFAC) with some of my recent artwork from my Anthropogenic Crisis series. Attempting to raise awareness about global heating that results from the... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Anthropogenic Crisis No. 124555) copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - When I wrote about a potentially new series of re-imagined botanical subjects a few days ago, I was not really sure if this was going to be a series that had some wheels on it. As a friend stated when she looked at her recent... Continue Reading →
Untitled #192801 (Anthropogenic Crisis series) copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - Yes, a literal negative perspective of one of my Memory Pods photographs that I was evaluating and tweaking late last night in the full spirit of my Experiment/Play process. I am not sure fully what to make of these negative (inverted) images of this and... Continue Reading →
Caustic Networks #9793 (Quantum Elements series) copyright 2020 Douglas Stockdale - While working on the series of photographs that investigates the sub-atomic world of particle physics, I have not really been calling much attention to the visual aspects of what results. Such that when the image is deconstructed and distilled into black and white, such... Continue Reading →
Memory Pods #074252 2021copyright Douglas Stockdale - This question, when is an artistic series complete? was one of the many questions that Brooks Jensen, editor of LensWork, asked me in my very first interview. It is a question that as you can imagine that has stuck with me. As background I had submitted my Roadside... Continue Reading →
Sub-atomic Flow #3624 copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - When I published my earlier article about a trip up to Oregon and then out onto the coast to visit Patterson beach, I had hinted that there might be another follow on article, which is this one. Another aspect of the Oregon coast is the many small... Continue Reading →
Quantum Elements, #4062, copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - Here in the States, such an announcement in a supermarket of a 'Clean-up needed on some Aisle', means that there is a mess that was made, such as perhaps some shopper dropped something and one of the staff needs to go fix what happen. Likewise, I have... Continue Reading →
The Chaos We are In, (#4058) copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - This is my third reflection on how I implement my Photo (Artistic) Creativity and probably the one that I have mentioned most often in my past articles; allowing myself to 'Experiment/Play'. Aka, it's okay to mess around and have some fun. Others may not... Continue Reading →
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