Title
Pirate Rock
Artist
John Bartosik
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
"Rock of Ages" is a series of photographs depicting the Precambrian Shield with interpretive form. The Shield is 4 billion years old stretching across most of Canada. The rock has been scraped clean of ancient mountain ranges by glaciers, and liquefied by forces of extinct volcanoes and tectonic pressures. Time and weather has revealed patterns and shapes in the seemingly desolate bedrock. This rock's surface is engraved with the wrinkles and scars of permanence that are a result of powerful forces of energy from within the earth.
In this series of concepts, I have attempted to create form with my perceptions of the rock while characterizing the antiquity of our earth. Mythological creatures, ancient structures, symbolic animals and primeval human forms with some earthy recognition immediately emerge from these images.
The symmetry created by mirroring the original abstracts seems to connect with our subconscious need for order in the chaos of nature. The process introduces us to a realm of mindfulness where there is a glimpse of the earth's energetic patterns and we are invited to reflect on its--and on our--future.
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December 14th, 2008
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Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your creative and unique art work is Featured on the homepage of the "Out Of The Ordinary 1 A Day" group! l/f
John Bartosik
Thanks for the kind words Denny. It's a matter of sharing my sight. I never noticed the figure below the nose. Instinctively, at first I have a feeling of certainty, much later on the reasons come to me.
Denny Bond
I'm always "seeing" faces in natural formations in the trunks of trees. These mirror images are so well composed, especially this one... since there's a lion face, an old man, what appears to be petroglyphs in the nose, 2 profile faces at the corner of the eyes, and a "religious" figure below the nose. It's amazing what you have created from what already exists.
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