All is Right With the World

by | Oct 22, 2008 | armstrong browning library, being, berries, bronze, browning, butterfly tattoo, dew, dying, elizabeth barrett browning, face, flower, flower petal, giving, living, petal, robert browning, sculpture

photo-collage, Waco, TX, October, 2008

I was feeling antsy on Sunday morning of our parent’s weekend at Baylor University. I hadn’t run that weekend, the walking I had done was the slow type that is bad on my back, there had been a bit too much shopping and I had grown bored. Sunday morning I finally just took a photo walkabout on my own from the motel towards Baylor not sure of what I would find.

What I found was the Armstrong Browning Library, a repository of material from the archives of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the poets.

‘The Bronze Poet – All’s Right With The World’
The Bronze Poet ~ All's Right With The World

The sculpture out front and the surrounding flora and fauna gave me an opportunity to get lost in the visual world, looking at details that I new would combine to give some meaning. What meaning I did not know, but I knew it was there, nonetheless.

I actually don’t know if this is a sculpture of Elizabeth, but I think it is. I do know I climbed up on it so I could get images looking down on her face instead of up. Iiked knowing that cars driving by and people walking by were looking at me holding her hands and hair and shoulders while I leaned far enough away to get a shot or two.

Sights and Sounds of the Invisible Heart

by | Feb 18, 2008 | butterfly tattoo, collage, eye, eyes, face, manipulated image, necklace, photoshop, portrait

This image is a collage of 4 distinct photographs. I used an existing lamp in a foyer of a hotel in Luray, Virginia during the reception for my daughter’s wedding in October of 2006. I simply took off the lampshade to get the light I wanted. Two of the images are of the Model, a front face view and a 3/4 face view that I collaged together in Photoshop. At the same time I took those photos I took photos of her butterfly tattoo and her necklace, among other things. I later layered those onto the collage I had already created and slowly but surely melded them on top of the face image. It took a long time!
Created using Photoshop CS3.