Recently I sold $4,700 worth of art work to support a show that I am having on December 10th @ Space Gallery. I’m very excited to see the fruits of my labor as I’m spending $6,500 dollars on the show it self. It’s done in an extremely beautifully process. I’m face mounting 1/2 inch plexiglass to a special c-type paper called Fuji Flex. The plex is fixed to the paper with a translucent adhesive. It is VERY high tech and modern. I’ve used a paper called Kodak Metallic in the past, but the plexiglass does not adhere to this paper as well as the Flex does. I’ve redone my entire process in this style and the show will look incredible and contemporary. So, now that you’ve heard about what I’m doing, come and see it for yourself… That is the only step left in this process :
Now for the part where I talk about what I’m going through… Life has been rough lately. I’ve been couch surfing for the last 2 months. I haven’t had a real place to call home in too long. I’m working on making my show work, and not just my show, my entire life. Seeing as how the show is called TransDimensional, it’s a perfect title not only for the show, but what I’m currently going through. And the best part is: through all the chaos… beautiful things are blooming.
Just a little taste of what I’ve been working on recently:
My art is beginning to take it’s own form of chaos. Wait, is that an oxymoron, form and chaos? I’m just having fun at this point, but please allow me to further this serious point.
In the past, I’ve always shot in the theme of spirituality. Spirituality, although highly personal to me, something I don’t usually like to talk about with other people, has always come naturally to my photography. It is the one true thing that I feel I express clearly with my camera (key word, feel).
In the past, I have taken shots that might resemble ghosts, or spirits… something beyond the ordinary that I find in my everyday life… But this time, I’ve gone past that to explain something more. I’ve decided to call my show: Transdimensional… This show is going to exhibit the transition from physical life into a spiritual realm of being.
My soul has never truly felt at home in its vessel, as if I was never meant to have a vessel. If you imagine all the possibilities of being conscious without a body, they are truly endless. Imagine to be just pure happiness, or pure sorrow, or just excitement, and absolute joy, instead of always knowing in the back of your mind that this feeling will eventually fade into obscurity. We are physical creatures of habbit and need. But to rid our self of limitations, is to be “pure being.”
My show aims to tackle this transition, explain its process through imagery, and help myself understand what I cannot see.
Transdimentional opens December 9th @ Space Gallery.
Love, -R
Transdimensional - Traveling Through Time and Space
Here are some examples from the first shoot I did with Brows:
I’m so high on creativity right now. I feel with this work, I am only further departing from reality, as if sinking further into the lake of dreams… I’ve becomes increasingly detached from reality, much like how I despise the cold and harsh truths that people have come to know through their daily lives. I am trying my best not to accept these truths in favor of believing my own created reality.
Life can be viewed as either a beautiful excursion, or a hell hole of unsatisfied needs. It’s hard to stay continually focused on the former, but it is wise to at least do your best when following the path of light.
On a technical note, where I usually photoshop the hell out of my work… using this filter and that adjustment, I’ve hardly touched these; just a simple clean up from the scan.
Last, but not least, I’d like to say a shout out for a friend: Hank, I really appreciate you and your faith.
-R
This was taken at a pedicab documentary held in Brooklyn. The film shed a lot of light on the pedicab scene’s struggle to hold their ground in NYC against the taxi lobbyists. It was also held at an art studio and gallery, so the conversations that followed were awesome. (Camera Phone)
This was Brooklyn, as seen through the eye of my camera phone.
This is my foot while riding a pedicab and taking a rest in Manhattan. (Camera Phone)
Fabi and me at Frankies Spuntino! Yum Yum!
An interior shot of my new favorite restaurant. We were the last to leave at 1 in the morning. That would never happen in Denver: a sweet restaurant open till 1am?
Fabi on the back of my pedicab in Lower East Side.
For all of those who are interested in seeing the real images from New York, Just wait a little longer till they are developed. I shot almost exclusively film while I was in New York in my brand new style. At least, I can’t wait.
-R
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A shot from my cellular telephone, not bad?
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