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We are now at
Mountain Island Lake
a place we call Little Italy Peninsula Arts Center
and it's a little
grouping of houses
they're all built
the same way
simple structures and each house has four studios for artists to
work in.
It's located in the middle
of the property so
easy access for everybody and we're all together here as a group
of artists and can share our experiences
then we have going in one direction is more
an area for stimulation, for creative thinking for getting
inspired
and going
north the other directions
the thought of maybe having it
shows of how it works coming from the middle where the production is actually
here.
This room is where it all begins.
It's kind of like a little secret area because it's
personal elements that I
treasure and
I
I know that in the future
something
will happen with the material that I have here
and
I am protective.
It's like where I have my toys
where I
have my little people
that I
have some kind of a relationship
and
they are
assembled here and together with some
some other materials that
that I bring them together with when I create my
environments
I take them with me on
my walks here at Little Italy
go through the woods
put them in different
situations
play with them
until
it goes away then come back here
so here I have
just a variety of ideas that have evolved and
I put little scenes together at the very beginning
so I have like little piles of ideas
that
at the spur of the moment I
might be
intrigued to take one of them
take my pockets and walk away and take my camera
and
create scenes.
We're now in a
showroom that
I can look
at images that are
finished
the ones that are frames are
those that go to galleries
and
so for example if
if you look at that green one with the nails so that's one of the
figurines that
is here not yet finished not yet framed but it will go
it's close to being finished will be on canvas and then framed
so all these on that wall you see all of these figurines
and then lower standing on the floor
is another figurine that will go
to the College of Arts + Architecture show
and then the the larger one here is
the motion picture
that will
also to gallery.
In this area of we see again figurines on the walls
straight down
the three images they are not framed yet but the framed
ones
will come soon and then they go
to
UNC
Arts + Architecture College also downtown.
This is an uplifting image for me and
it shows a
girl that walks into Spring
and for the gallery of UNCC
we
we created a
special installation on fabric for
the window that goes to the street where the gallery is
so
it will be
a collection of
manipulation of this mother image what I call it.
This is derived from a series of
shots with the idea of this girl in Spring and
from this we took
elements to create these
these curtains for the gallery
these images here are
winterscapes of from Switzerland
there was a lot of snow and
I transformed them into
into these
stretch landscapes.
Towards the back of the studio
we see
the printer that's medium sized that can go up to forty four
inches in width and any any kind of length that and get these rolls
and then we have the longer pieces
we stretch them out here and
check them
and
they also need to be
treated for UV
you want to be sure that you
have it properly protected
There is a
process it's a little image that
we went from
from medium
to larger and
thought maybe this is now
an interesting size small
small but on a large surrounding
we have
glass
glass over it to protect it.
I think it makes a good
contrast to some very large
imagery that I will have like
this one here
which is actually
cloth
and here in this corner
is where
Tory right now is working on spotting
a lot
of work comes from the printer
has some impurities
that can be
fixed
with some paint
we take
the paint that comes in the cartridges of the printer we use that
to touch it up so the color stays consistent
and then
after all is said and done it has to be fixed also
we fix it and UV protect it
and here too you see the
images are here to dry
some printed on gold
and some on metal
so they're not quite ready to
to be framed.
My creative process is not thought out it is
picked up
it's
there
and
then I have
the chance to photograph it and
the first step has been taken then.
Then from there it goes
to the computer
to one of
the medias to be printed on or
will be rephotographed again
or I take an image that is now a two-dimensional picture for example
and and take it
with me and go to the lake and put it in the water
put some sand over it and start all over again
so it's
very often it's just a wonderful playing with
what is around me.