All About Irma Backelant
A well known photographer and writer, Freeman Patterson, once wrote "We think with three kinds of images - the kind we observe (physical objects), the kind we imagine (visual ideas and dreams), and the kind we create (a sketch, painting, or photograph)."
I think of myself more as a digital (my medium) artist than a pure photographer and try to think in the three planes that Freemen mentions. I see the object, I hopefully produce a good photographic image and then I create a new entity via my imagination and digital editing, hence the name E (electronic) ShapeShifter. I do so by following my curiosity and sense of the esthete to move the object beyond the realm of reality to an altered reality, a different or enhanced perception if you will.
To me digital artistry is the ultimate form of creativity and expression of my imagination.
For example, examine the two pictures of the evolvement of the blooming yucca pods to an abstract Japanese Kabuki mask, or whatever you perceive it to be.
I attempt to encourage people, via my work, to expand their thinking processes to new dimensions; to evoke an intellectual and or emotional response - to learn to think sideways as Freemen says. Hopefully, my art does indeed assist you in that Endeavour.
-=[ Irma ]=-