Open Focus
photographs: Near & Far
Exhibition: October 4-28, 2012
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Arthop Reception
Thursday, October 4th, 5:00-8:00
Artist Reception
Staurday, October 20th, 1:00-4:00
“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