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Jean-Marie Guyaux
ART Habens
The surrealism of Rene Magritte impressed
and puzzled me in the years of my youth.
Later, in the era of analogue photography,
the work of Jerry Uelsmann in particular
had the same effect. At that time,
Uelsmann’s work represented creative and
technical feats that I was not ready to
tackle. With the advent of digital software,
similar work, not always of the highest
quality, is now achievable by many with
just a few clicks of the mouse. For my
representative and realistic work, digital
software has become my darkroom.
Processing manipulation is kept to a
minimum. My approach to the
contemporary object is not “look at how
beautiful that was” but “look at what a
beautiful thing it has become.” I save it
with respect as I discovered it.
What sets my ”Icons” representation apart
is my ability to intensively manipulate the
pixels of an image with a mix of photo and
other non-photographic software. I create
new layers of pixels that generate an
abstract and mind-altering hybrid visual.
The mystifying re-interpretation of the
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