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Why abstract photography?
The anthropologist Agustin Fuentes said: "The ability to imagine and to take that imagination and make it into reality is one of the things that is really distinctive about humans." I have wondered about the psychology behind my urge to do the opposite and abstract, distort and manipulate the reality of a photograph, all be it a stunning one, into an entity that requires imagination.
I can remember the first time I did this. I live in East Devon, a beautiful area of the UK. On one of my walks there is an electricity sub-station and the inevitable pylons. I have to be realistic about modern life and our need for power generation, but this outstanding area of natural beauty has been uglified. I had the idea to face up and photograph the offending blots on the landscape with a view to imagining, experimenting and creating some improvement. Whether I was successful or not with the Power Point triptych is subjective - perhaps I failed. I did as Fuentes mentioned though, used imagination to make another reality.
Perhaps in reality I don't much care for my own, mankind's and the planet's current reality. I imagine a better reality and a captured photographic moment in time that is mundane or relatively meaningless is something I can slew for my own imagination. I don't share Fuentes' belief that human beings' innate creativity emanates from chance. Perhaps the underlying psychology is simply the desire for a more colourful, appealing, improved reality. JME
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