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 →
Negative Perspective
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 →
Reticulation patterns
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 →
Quantum Elements – magical events
Quantum Elements (Caustic Network #165000) copyright Douglas Stockdale 2021 - My Quantum Elements series continues to evolve as I am really fascinated with the macro aspect of particle physics, those things that occur at the sub-atomic level, but yet provides evidence of the events that we can not see occurring. So cool. This is another... Continue Reading →
When is an artistic series complete?
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 →
Clean-up on Aisle Five
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 →
Photo Creativity 103 – Experiment & Play
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 →
Frick Fine Arts Library – permanent collection
Earlier I had announced that a limited edition Fiuggi Book + Print of Ciociaria was acquired by the Frick Fine Arts Library at the University of Pittsburgh and I now very excited to announce that four of my books are now in their permanent collection. In addition to the Ciociaria book are my three artist... Continue Reading →
European Book representation – Anzenberger Gallery bookshop
I am very excited to announce that my limited edition artist book 'Middle Ground' is now available in Europe though the Anzenberger Gallery Bookshop! This Vienna (Austria) bookshop is run by the wonderful and talented gallerist and bookmaker Regina Maria Anzenberger. It is a real pleasure to work with her and her gallery team as... Continue Reading →
Memory Pods – 2021 Experiment/Play
Memory Pods (#192128) copyright Douglas Stockdale 2021 Yesterday when I published my update article about my progress on my eighth year of working on my Memory Pods series, I did not discuss something new for this series that I started my experiment/play process with. Up until this year, I have been keeping the background in... Continue Reading →