Who Moved My Art Quotes?

I know I didn't. Grrrr.

Jackson Pollock. I recently watched a movie on him. I am not much into painting. I am hardly interested in Abstract Expressionism, but as I am studying art I need to view all areas and artist and mediums. I have come across some abstract photographers and am undecided on how I feel about it. To me, photography expresses the real. Or tries to as best a camera can. So abstraction really is hard for me to grasp. I am too much of a realist and anything that doesn't resemble something, throws my brain cells into a quandry. But in watching about Pollock, and reading up on him, he views his art as coming from within. Not looking to something outside. Not looking to nature. Not looking to a particular object. And I get it. Now it isn't easy to put your inner self into photography. Or at least not for me. Because you see the things that come from the inside are intangible. Not like photographing a tree and calling it a landscape. How do you 'photograph' feelings, ideas, emotions? It isn't easy, but it can be done. That I think will be my next photographic attempt. I just need to follow through. It seems that at the very end of my 'projects' for class is when I am just beginning to get my ideas across. Fucked up. Duane Michals captures such things on film. Not because I read what he writes about his work, which is how I mostly "get" someone's art, because it isn't clear to me what the hell the concept is (I tell ya I'm conceptually challenged). But in his photographs you get the feeling or the emotion he's photographing to get across. Hell I have no delusions of creating work similar to his, but if I can be at least a little bit successful I'll be happy.

Perhaps I need to start another blog.......for photography crap only.......we'll see. I barely have time for this one.

*Looks behind my shoulder out the kitchen door* Son of a biscuit eater.....it's freakin raining. So much for my run.......