How to (Proverbially) Work It

OCD as I am, you know that there is some sort of ridiculous organization to all of this. Rather than make this all for myself and publish willy nilly, I’m including a breakdown of how I plan to do this. If you feel like a peek into my organizational psychosis, read on. Otherwise, browse around the site and I’m sure you’ll get the drift.

In Lens Flare, I’m trying to organize the amassed work that I have thus far, but also take a look at some of the different techniques that I’ve employed in the past (or am looking into for the future). There isn’t really one way that I do any particular thing, and I want to keep a tally of it all. Any sections marked as Observatory are going to be about the technical work and methods that I am playing around with. All of my compiled work (collections, portfolios, shows, etc.) will be marked as Gallery.

I am still playing around with how to best display work on the web, so expect there to be links to all sorts of web slideshows and interactive galleries. I can’t help but fuss with web design a whole lot – aside from being a powerful tool to display visual artistry, it’s an easy way to junk things up as well. I have photographs that look stunning as framed and mounted 16 x 20s that lose all meaning on a 1024 x 768 res screen. I’m just trying to find the common ground here.

Anything marked as an Intro is an explanation of how the site works (…kind of like this is). Anyways, enough on this. I do believe that good design involves less words and better visual cues, so consider this your invitation to skip out on my rambling and take a look around. Cheers.

 

Photo: An absolute favorite of mine, and a reminder that art is a great deal of serendipity. I keep this grainy version up for a reason, as I have a 4′x6′ painting that I’ve done of this, and it’s grainy as hell as well. (Winston, Coney Island. 2003)

 

~ by Angela on June 10, 2007.