08-27-07-0915 Hrs
by John Bartosik
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08-27-07-0915 Hrs
Artist
John Bartosik
Medium
Photograph - Giclee Photograph On Canvas
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Part of a fine art series called "Rock of Ages" is a series of photographs depicting the Precambrian Shield with interpretive form. The Shield is the earth's greatest area of exposed Archaean rock making it the earth�s oldest at 4 billion years. The rock has been scraped clean of ancient mountain ranges by glaciers, and liquefied by forces of extinct volcanoes and tectonic pressures. Agents of time and weathering reveal powerful forces of energy at play. My mirroring of abstract patterns and shapes in the rock gives form to those ancient forces as mythological creatures and symbolic representations of the earth�s antiquity, energy and spirit.
To a keen pair of eyes and a still mind, this rock�s surface is engraved with the wrinkles and scars of permanence that are a result of energetic forces from within the earth.
I look for something that resembles an eye or a mouth and maybe a nose or even a body part in the rocks� patterns and lines where you can see some great swirls of once active liquid rock. I try to imagine the other half of the image in the viewfinder as I compose the image. I perfect the actual crop line once the image is on the monitor by using a mirror to see where the crop should be. I duplicate the appropriately cropped image, flop it horizontally in Photoshop and bring both images together as a new file. Other than the mirror effect in photoshop only standard optimizations of colour and levels has been applied.
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June 20th, 2008
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