Joan Sharma

Open Focus
photographs: Near & Far

Exhibition: October 4-28, 2012

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“Open Focus”
Photographs: Near and Far

The interplay of light as it encounters objects and is transmitted and refracted by transparent and translucent materials inspired this series of digital prints. The compositions are linked through the formal qualities of value, pattern, texture and color. Labels indicate the location in which the image was captured here in Fresno, northern and southern California, Switzerland and India.

About half of the images were captured during 2012. While working through the process of selecting, editing and optimizing image files for printing, I remembered similar images that I had captured during visits to northern and southern California, Switzerland and India. The exhibition title, “Open Focus” refers to a type of awareness and the feeling I experience while contemplating the alignment of visual information and qualities of light at the moment of image capture. They were printed during the last three months. I am reminded of a saying, “where ever you go, there you are.”

Joan K. Sharma
October 2012