Mark McAfee Brown
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
out and about hiking through beautiful places. I take a large number of photos, Sometimes hundreds in a day. Often several from the same immediate landscape from different vantage points, and when I return to my studio I transfer them to one of my computers. I then view them and collect promising images in a folder. On a day of shooting I will be lucky if 2 or 3 out of 100 photos will be worth working on to make an artworthy print.
I import the promising photos into Photoshop and simplify the images, turning them into a cross between paintings and digital woodcuts. I started out as a very analog / traditional artist, doing drawings, paintings and sculptures, and as such now see my photographs as a starting point to be molded and modified into whatever kind of image I can imagine. I didn’ t take photography seriously until I was in my early 20’ s. With the advent of digital photography and Photoshop, I finally found the right medium of expression for myself. vastness and wild beauty of the Western American landscape.
In my photographic process for the Landscape( Woodless Woodcuts) Series, I start with digital photos taken with my Nikon DSLR while I am
My photographic process for the creation of the NightBlooms series is very different. They are a series of digital art works that explore the space in which Nature and Technology collide, merge, marry and mul- tiply. These are conceptual artworks in which I reimagine, re-assemble and re-image the natural world, in a new visual world