Antique Trucks - WILLOW COURT, NEW NORFOLK TASMANIA

Finding wonderful abstractions on this day at Willow Court with my new lens filled me with joy. Yes, rust and decay antique trucks inspired me.

Colours, forms/shapes lines, negative and positive spaces caught my eyes that just had to be captured.

Will have to return to this amazing visual place, as I only scaped the surface and used two camera lenses the, Fujinon Aspherical 30mm f2 and Fujinon 50mm f2 on a Fujifilm X-T4 camera.

Should you ever wish to see these vintage trucks, cars, buses… see them all and more at the Willow Court Antique Centre.

“I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth”. - Henry Miller

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.” - Ernst Fischer

Born in Austria, Ernst Fischer (1899–1972) studied philosophy before working as a newspaper editor, radio commentator, and writer; in the years after World War II he became a leading cultural commentator. His books include Art Against Ideology and The Necessity of Art. "Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it." - Ernst Fischer.

Art cuts across every spectrum of life; sociability, spirituality, work, health, it can be perceived as a product of skill and visual representation of time past, the present and the future. Our historical/ancestral backgrounds are embedded in art as it gives us an idea of our roots and clarity of our culture. The necessity of art is beyond ordinary. Art is reflective. Art is bold. Art is necessary. Prof. Frank Ugiomoh

WHEN ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BLEND INTO ABSTRACTION

I have been wanting to do something like this for a long time. Combining original artwork with photography via a grid format. Below are my first four attempts and it has some promise that I’ll title them as Urban Abstracts #1, #2, #3 and #4 and just see where this takes me.

Materials that I may also combine to create this mixed media art format include, but are not limited to, paint (recycling old paintings), cloth, paper (collage), wood and found objects. Then once having knitted them together I may use a scanner or some digital techniques to enhance, dissolve, blur or use filters, layers etc.;…whatever helps to make this motif work, “Urban Abstract”.

Urban Abstracts - Hobart #1

Urban Abstracts - Hobart #2

Urban Abstracts - Hobart #3

Urban Abstracts - Hobart #4

Oh no!! His starting something new. I’m starving as it is. I was promised treats ages ago. This is a tragedy. This will NOT turn out well.

EARLY URBAN ABSTRACTS - Photography Film/Digital

The genesis of “urban abstracts” began many years ago when I was a student at the then Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, which later became the City Art Institute.

Very quickly during weekends and semester breaks when having camera at hand I’d walk around the suburbs near the college, Paddington, Surrey Hills and Redfern all the while my eyes were drawn not to overall visual elements, but fragments, appealing shapes, forms, negative versus positive spaces, colour and texture.

The last two images at the bottom of this post are some samples of images taken on my walks around Redfern with a old RICOH XR-1s 35mm Film Camera. .

The black and white photographs taken below are all around Surrey Hills and Redfern. At that time, I developed my own films and printed them with a Rollie 6x7 and 35mm enlarger in a darkroom. Even though this method of working brought another element in connecting with this subject it is now far more environmentally friendly than using all those toxic materials.