The Camera is the Brush 2020- 2024

Photography’s relationship to painting and its place in Art History is a frequently debated topic. A photograph can not only index a thing but also the condition of the maker and the making. In turn, a photograph could be a recording of the state of mind of the photographer – a landscape that reveals an emotional dimension. Applying principles from painting such as Stéphane Mallarmé thesis in a letter to Henri Cazalis, Oct. 30, 1864 in Oeuvres complete: “I am creating a language which must necessarily spring from a quite new conception of poetry, and I define it in these words: To paint, not the thing, but the effect which it produces.” The landscape becomes non-representational, soothing, an every place - full of dynamism, a vision of the sublime and center for the motion of life.