<div><div data-block-type="2" data-border-radii="{"topLeft":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"topRight":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"bottomLeft":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"bottomRight":{"unit":"px","value":0.0}}"><div><div><div data-block-type="2" data-border-radii="{"topLeft":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"topRight":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"bottomLeft":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"bottomRight":{"unit":"px","value":0.0}}"><div>Selected exhibitions<br>2021: Sooke Fine Art Show,—Sooke Fine Arts Society, Sooke, BC <br>2021: Re-Vision: Photo-Based Art—Metchosin ArtPod Gallery, Metchosin, BC <br>2019: Woven Light: Photographs—The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, Victoria, BC<br>2016: Uncommon Beauty: Photographs—The Studio Gallery, Victoria, BC<br><br>outwest@westweb.com<br><a href="http://www.outwestdesign.ca/photography">www.outwestdesign.ca/photograp...</a><br><br><br><br>“No, you don’t shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that’s what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light <br>to the things you see.<br>–Katja Michael</div></div></div></div></div></div>
Statement"No matter what goes missing, the object you need or the person you love, the lessons are always the same. Disappearance reminds us to notice, transience to cherish, fragility to defend. Loss is a kind of external conscience, urging us to make better use of our finite days. Our crossing is a brief one, best spent bearing witness to all that we see: honoring what we find noble, tending what we know needs our care, recognizing that we are inseparably connected to all of it, including what is not yet upon us, including what is already gone. We are here to keep watch, not to keep."
Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found
Using my digital graphic expertise, I work in Photoshop and often use layers and effects to develop and translate my images. In this series, the images were taken locally and in Europe with adjustments for saturation and transparency. With each print, I combined a natural, historic or found image to create contrast, encourage curiosity, develop depth and release colour.
