We can turn life, emotions, and experiences into art!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us talk about how I approached creating some artwork as well as curating an exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, Pear Affair 1 and Pear Affair 2 was my first venture in creating still life artwork. In fact, Pear Affair 2 was recognized at the 5th<\/sup> Annual Black and White Spider Awards. I was nominated in the Professional \u2013 Still Life category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You ask \u2026 what prompted me to create these images?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had some bosc pears on the kitchen counter and the shapes captured my attention. I started to place them in different position. I thought to myself that this will work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next week at the grocery store, when selecting a new batch of pears, I paid attention to their shape. Above are the best two images. Pear Affair 2 is such a powerful image that I adopted it as my logo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The second example, Sunnyside Reflections was an image in my 2004 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival exhibition called \u201cEnter\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was my first exhibition after leaving the corporate world. I selected the Sunnyside Pavilion in Toronto because the gates represented that I was entering a new world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the same time, I wanted the image to present an underlying feeling. By visiting the site different days and times as well as lighting conditions, I selected a cold sunny February afternoon to create the image. To me it projects a feeling of a villa in a sunny location, like Spain. What do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The third example, a selection of trees. These five images along with twelve other tree images were created in 2006 for my Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival exhibition called \u201cUrban Optics\u201d. The tree images were captured at High Park in Toronto from mid-January to mid-March. The exhibition was held at the Gladstone Hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just over a month ago, I was in the local park for my daily walk. One of the first signs of Spring \u2013 buds on the trees! Immediately, I thought of my 2006 \u201cUrban Optics\u201d exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I decided to curate an exhibition for Instagram and Twitter. I titled the exhibition \u201cPortraits in Nature\u201d and featured a different image each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exhibition Statement: \u201cThe majestic High Park trees represent nude models. As the days get warmer, the nude models will soon be blooming into their finest Spring outfits.\u201d<\/em> In hindsight, Spring has not been as warm with several trees still presenting as nude models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you take time to smell the roses? It may be a clich\u00e9, but new research suggests its sound advice for finding satisfaction in life. As Covid-19 pandemic ravage the world, we see the fragility of life and how fast it can happen. I personally experienced this fragility in 1985 when Pauline, my life partner, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[26,22,27,24,23,25,9],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-philosophy","tag-black-and-white-spider-awards","tag-high-park","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-scotiabank-contact-photography-festival","tag-spring","tag-sunnyside-pavilion","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritofanalogart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritofanalogart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritofanalogart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritofanalogart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritofanalogart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritofanalogart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritofanalogart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritofanalogart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritofanalogart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritofanalogart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.spiritofanalogart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pear-Affair-Duo-1024x644.jpg\")
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