Pluto

By Amanda Lomax

Piece description from the artist

The Orbs series is a collection of abstract landscape photographs. They are color studies of shadow and light on selected interior walls.
Light, as a form, is manipulated, creating the effect of a landscape or horizon, even though the images come from a man-made structure. By playing with color, the vista moves throughout time and space, sometimes appearing familiar, other times otherworldly. The interesting idea being that upon closer inspection, something seemingly ordinary can be transformed into something extraordinary. A plain white interior wall becomes a wondrous and imaginative scene. From a personal point of view, this series brought forth an important realization: beautiful photographs can be made even without the means to travel to beautiful places. An interesting corollary is the idea that the world inside the camera’s viewfinder becomes a blank canvas, from which an imaginative painting begins.

The inspiration for this series is comes from several renown artists. Hungarian photographer Laszlo Maholy-Nagy’s’ call to ‘defy conventions’ invites experimentation in photographic techniques. Josef Albers’ textbook on color theory, "The Interaction of Color" is a constant guide. Finally, this series honors Mark Rothko’s powerful, abstract work about emotion and color. The title of the series, Orbs, refers to the celestial bodies suggested in the photographs and is also inspired by my personal lifelong fascination with outer space and planets.

This image is printed on high-quality aluminum using the dye sublimation process. The piece is backed by1-mmm black dibond and features floating hanging hardware mounted to the piece to float the piece 1/2" from the wall. Matte finish, signed in verso.