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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Mark McAfee Brown
My intention is to blur the relationship between reality and perception, with reality being a straight and unaltered photograph and perception being an artistic and heightened version of that original image. That is basically what I do in my artistic work and process in all of the work that I do.
To me personal experience is absolutely indispensable as a part of the creative process, if one is a creative artist. In my
NightBlooms series, I grew all of the flowers in my yard that I used to make the images. Soil preparation, compost, seeds and seedlings, pest control, water, fertilizer, more water, cutting flowers, composing flowers on a flatbed scanner, compositing in Photoshop, artistic imaging, printing, framing, getting solo shows. ttg solo shows...
In my Landscape( Woodless Woodcut) Series, I need go out into nature to find