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What do you see? Playing with light and different media to create unique images.

From April 26, 2018 7:15 pm until April 26, 2018 9:00 pm
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JIM MC CORMICK will be our presenter on April 26th.

          Artwork presented by JJMDigital, LLC

www.jjmdigital.com


 

Biography:

My professional passion has been to help people in the critical juncture between life and death.  As a young teen, I joined my parents as they saved lives and property in their community through volunteer rescue and fire services.  This led to my work as a paramedic and then as an emergency medicine physician.  That service has taken me from New York City to Los Angeles and now to Miami.  This rewarding immersive experience allowed me to live with international communities in several large American cities.  Advancing my education led me to expand my contribution to help more people live better lives. That education pressed me to travel and learn about healthcare in both Asia and Central America, expanding my perspectives and cultural awareness.  

Process and Materials:

Photography is my passionate escape.  While my older portfolio includes orchids, flowers, light, cacti, leaves etc,  my current focus turns to an exploration into the interface of air, oil, water, glass and motion.  The four materials interact in very different ways depending on how they are introduced to each other and vary depending on the vessel that is used.  Pouring, mixing, scraping, twisting and using intentionally non-intuitive perspectives with the macro lenses, tilt-shift and rings compel the viewer's brain to ask the eye: What do You See?  

Photoshop is used to develop the pictures in the same manner that one would do in a darkroom.  The only PS tools used are to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, tone, curves etc.  There is disciplined intent to keep the image true to what was captured at the moment.

There is a quiet peacefulness in this art that takes me away from the tension and intensity of life’s common stressors.

These pieces present my fascination with the behavior of light as it moves through changing mediums.  Experimentation with cameras and lenses in nearly microscopic places gives me the liberty to probe deeper and capture fleeting moments in time.  It takes us to worlds where light, color, oil, water, glass, air and time all collide and disperse.  Each picture is a unique fragment of a second that will never occur again.   

 Curiosity and inspiration find their strongest voice in the abstract. We become inquisitive and consider: focal planes, motion, color, and the materials … all captured in a fractured moment in time.   The most evocative and provocative images are the ones where people have different impressions inspired by the same print.   

We meet every 2nd and 4th Thursday at:

Evelyn Greer Park (Pinecrest) 
8200 SW 124th Street 
Pinecrest, FL 33157

 

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