By
Jean Perkins
Piece description from the artist
This is a photograph that I made in response to a call to participate in an exhibition called Oil and Water. The materials used in the construction include a large, clear glass pyrex cake pan, glass stones, oil, water, and feathers. Oh, and maybe some dish soap. Objects were layered with some distance between each. The construction was lit. The shot was made from above, looking down into two separate layers.
The liquid layer received a furious stir. The shot was taken.
The feathers were each brushed with oil, scanned individually, then each feather image was digitally inserted into the image.
I had no idea how to make this. I just had a visual idea in my head and started to experiment with a variety of materials to suggest what happens when oil, water, and birds get mixed together.
This image was used on the show card.
Turning Art Bio 5.10.19
This is story telling, a body of images more interested in stirring emotions than creating documents. To achieve this, light, color, grace, style and beauty combine within carefully chosen frames.
Most all of the photographs were taken where or close to where the artist was living at the time. Their subjects are everyday things at everyday places with doses of not so everyday weather. The exception to this, is work made in response to a call for work. Often that work is constructed by the artist.
The artist lives in Old Saybrook, CT. She holds an MFA photography from Columbia College Chicago with additional studies in Fine Arts and Fiber Arts/Bookmaking.
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