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Artist Dolores Kiriacon
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida USA
Dried Palm Bark, Sea Grape Leaves
Fine Art Photography
Artist Statement
As a fine artist with a background in painting, printmaking, and sculpture, I now use photography as a source of ideas and a tool to create. My photographs are portraits/still lifes of nature’s forms, from flowers, dried leaves, twigs, to the bark of trees in their various stages of growth and natural decline. I have been collecting and photographing these natural forms for quite some time and I am always looking for that special form of nature that inspires me. The camera brings out qualities that one cannot see with the naked eye when these forms are on the ground. These photographs are taken indoors, using natural light and a reflective surface. When composing and taking these photographs the challenge is to create exciting and interesting compositions to entice the viewer to see these images in a new and different way. They created a new life of their own through the lens of my camera.
Dried Palm Bark, Sea Grape Leaves – when collecting the many dried natural forms that are on the ground, although I can see their beauty, I don’t know at the time exactly how I am going to photograph them. It is their different shapes, forms, textures and colors that determine whether they are placed together, or left alone, to create an interesting and exciting composition. What I liked about the shapes of the dried sea grape leaves with the dried palm bark was how well they contrasted each other, allowing the viewer to look close at subjects and see beauty in simple things that one may overlook.
For each group of new photographs I like to create a series from four, six or eight different compositions so that I have one, two or a group of photographs that work well together. All images are limited editions, signed and numbered, printed on archival smooth cotton paper.
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