11/27/10

Chromatic Fields


Chromatic Fields    
Image sizes: 21x21”  inkjet print




















 Morton Feldman suspended repeating and subtly evolving and transforming sound patterns in a (musical) space that was generated in his 1981 composition for solo piano, Triadic Memories by having the pianist hold down the piano’s sustaining peddle throughout the duration of the performance of the piece.  As the piano hammer strikes the notes, the sounds emerge from—become suspended in—and then are allowed to slowly decay, or de-compose back into silence.  As this is happening, explains scholar-writer Clark Lunberry, the sounds become entropicaly interwoven and resonate together as an expansive tonal—chromatic—field, a tapestry of sound.  

In my chromatic field photographs I repeat the same image multiple times in a grid format.  I’m fascinated by the way an image, when it becomes transformed into a unified visual field-- an image tapestry--manifests a new pictorial space: a space which amplifies, often quite viscerally and with surprising transforming revelations, the essential visual characteristics of the single originating image.

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In 2011 my wife Gloria and I traveled throughout Turkey for two weeks and I became astounded an inspired by the repeating patterns I saw in the rugs, Mosque decorations, and Qur'an illuminations, among other forms of Islamic Sacred Art.   Indeed, partly why I traveled to Turkey was to see what Feldman himself said was an important inspiration for his music.  

Related to Feldman's music, then, are the photographs you will see in my multi-chaptered book, based on my experiences of Islamic Sacred Art in Turkey: "An Imaginary Book."  
The Chromatic Fields you will be seeing here, also have a visual counterpart in my Islamic Sacred Art inspired projects in "An Imaginary Book" in the chapter entitled: Infinite Beauty--Images of Never-Ending Continuity.  Also, I encourage you to see the chapter entitled Prayer Stones, which gives a detailed account of many of my experiences of Islamic Sacred Art in Turkey.  
This text is taken from the webpage entitled  Triadic Memories .




 
      Construction Block, Chromatic Field   21x21




      Blue Cloud  Chromatic Field   21x21




    
         Corner of Room, Chromatic Field   21x21”




      Chromatic Field  (Garage facade)   21x21”




       Fence Shadow, Chromatic Field   21x21”



   
     Abstract Chromatic Field  21x21”



       Chromatic Field - (three dots)  21x21”




          Chromatic Field - Wall Fragments  21x21” 





          Chromatic Field -  Apple & Line   21x21”





             Abstract Chromatic Field - (horse’s legs collage)  21x21”


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Additional
Chromatic Fields
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Chromatic Field  (architectural detail with lines and sky)   21x21”



Chromatic Field  (abstract image : corner of a room, colored)   21x21”



Chromatic Field  (abstract image : corner of a room)   21x21”



Chromatic Field  (Boy looking up at a man)   21x21”



Chromatic Field  (Pepper corns, negative)   21x21”



Chromatic Field  (ceiling vent)   21x21”



Chromatic Field  (wall with vines and lines)   21x21”



Chromatic Field  (screen door)   21x21”
Chromatic Field  (building air vent)   21x21”


Chromatic Field  (Garage interior, window and plasterboard)   21x21”

Chromatic Field  (fence and lines)   21x21”


Chromatic Field  (abstract image,"cotton balls")   21x21”


Chromatic Field  (yellow brick wall with black empty spaces)   21x21”



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