I am a dreamer of images and visions. As others have done and do, I want to create photographs that spark the imagination. I want the camera to see something truthful and timeless...to see the unseen.
I follow light. I experiment. I try to construct and deconstruct time and see beyond the real. Sharing with you is important to me. This brings the image to life.
If I were to write a simple treatise on art it would be like describing a Three Dimensional Mirror. I see the artist as one dimension reflecting truth on multiple levels. The physical experience in time and space mirrors the external, visible dimension. The third and deepest dimension reveals the subconscious inner space that flows from the imagination...reflecting the non-linear, collective subconcious. The Dimensional Mirror is both reflective and transparent...reality and unreality. I search for moments when I can see a revelation and capture it in a photograph.
In summary I believe that the creative process comes from outside (the world) and inside (the artist). When these merge into art...it is a revelation... re-discovery. I enjoy connecting the real, the surreal and the ultra-real in an image. I hope that this stimulates your imagination too.
Here is a quote I like from a film director, Colin Trevorrow:
'A good city subverts your expectations until everything is upside-down and backwards.'Alice In Wonderland' is such a place: one that starts with hopes and dreams, then throws out gravity, logic, physics, and all the laws of our universe.' (C Atlantic magazine September 2015).
Quotes from Michelangelo:
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
I studied Cinema at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, Harpur College...
'the art of seeing'.
Thomas J. Carroll
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Copyright - Thomas J. Carroll, 2014
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