Friday 17 October 2014

Ghost Ranch (all the right pixels, not necessarily in the right order)



An image of the landscape at Ghost Ranch, trying to concentrate on the colours rather than the geology.

This is an example of what I have called Photographic Abstraction. The image is based on a photograph but the effect is abstract.

I hope you can see the influence of Georgia O'Keeffe (edge of figurative/abstract) and of Gerhardt Richter (squeegee).

But the manipulation is not an elementary squeegee. The effect has been achieved by swapping pairs of pixels. So all the pixels from the original image are still there (or would be, if we ignored jpg compression), just not in their original locations.