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“Night photography
has so many things about it that fit my aesthetic, and is the best time to truly capture light and movement. Since the light is limited, and I’m using a moving hand-held camera, I can’t expect to get a ‘picture.’ What I get instead is an image of long-exposure red, white, yellow, and green light line tracings; from street lights, signals, car head and tail lights, porch lights—the receding and
approaching sunlight for its beautiful blues and violets, and any other acci- dental light source that finds its way onto the sensor of my camera. Draw- ing is the basis of painting and when I pick up my camera it becomes a draw- ing tool. Later I process the images I’ve taken; add and subtract; overlay with collage forms; add line and color, until I have an image that satisfies and ex- cites me. Photography is different from painting yet it shares so much of the same terrain.”
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0808B Insomnolence
construct photograph on paper on aluminum
30'' x 30''
Barry masteller