images floating

There are several images floating around inside my head. Perhaps too many to commit to physical form in my lifetime. Some have been there for a long time. Others appear spontaneously. Many, I can’t remember.

Sometimes, when I am lucky, my art can capture and produce a real world manifestation of these images. In most instances my camera finds the image manifested in the real world. On other occasions I create the image if its real world counterpart eludes me. This is why I get a rush during periods of creativity. I am capturing and depicting the mental images that until then, only existed as fleeting impressions viewable in my minds eye.

The images began to appear at an early age. The introduction of highly visualized mediums such as MTV (when they showed only music videos), movies showcasing increased visual technical proficiency and video games had the affect of broadening the scope of imagery I imagined. Movement was now a primary variable. In some cases I see details that are often overlooked by casual observation. I frame elements of my
total visual sensory input much in the same way a camera excludes details outside of the viewfinder frame.