Abstracts

The challenge with photography in general, and abstract photography specifically, is seeing in a creative sense. Given my attraction to the relationships of color, light, texture, shape, patterns and contrast, abstract images are becoming my favorite subject matter, especially those discovered in the natural world.

Through abstraction, I can shrug off the need to describe the work, leaving the viewer to appreciate the departure from reality and search for meaning.

 “The more I attempt to make something real as a painter, the more abstract it becomes. I love this paradox. As each year goes by, I’m increasingly engaged with the way abstraction and depiction, or realism—or whatever you want to call it—are actually intimately joined, and in constant struggle with [one another]. It comes down to how the world is perceived. Can I paint a forest without rendering a single tree? Or show the entirety of the forest with just one tree?” —Eric Aho