Photo or painting?
My all-time favorite design, artwork, and photography is experimental. Rauschenberg, Carson, Sagmeister…when I visit art museums, I head straight for the process work. The messy sketches. The unfinished paintings. I love the rawness, the imperfections that make it interesting. You can see the artist figuring it out.
These artists understand the rules, and throw them out the window. That’s what I’ve been working my way back to…with this Field Note series, over the past week in the Dolomites, this whole past year.
I love to play and experiment because it’s how we stumble into happy accidents. How we test hunches. How we keep our work fresh and alive instead of safe and predictable. And it’s fun.
This image started as a crappy bike-riding-in-a-puddle photo. Out of focus, weird angle, but not good weird. But I noticed this little spot…the blur, the motion, the way that small section sits between photo and painting. So I cropped in and created something new.
