By
Tom Reynen
Piece description from the artist
I participated in a project called Brushes with Cancer where artists are paired with patients with cancer. Dan, the person I was paired with, was a college professor and a photographer. We went through his photos and chose a simple scene he had taken of a group of reeds reflected in the water in a lake. I then took that photo and, through various software programs and techniques, created a series of variations of the photographs that reflected the ups and downs of his journey with cancer. I created a book of the 20+ photos that was presented to his widow. And one of the photos was sold at a gala to raise funds for cancer research. So it is fitting this photo will be displayed in a hospital. The bubbles, or points of light as I call them, are meant to symbolize the joy and hope he brought to others during his life.
Tom is a photographer splitting his time between Shoreview, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul, and Vancouver, British Columbia. He a member of the Dow Gallery, St Paul's largest private gallery, and the Art Guild Gallery of Stillwater MN. His photography studio is in the historic Lowertown neighborhood of St. Paul. Tom is past president of the St. Paul Art Collective which produces the Saint Paul Art Crawl twice a year. His work has been exhibited at the Mill District Arts Gallery, Robbin Gallery, Gallery 96, the Evoke Gallery, the Artists Merchantile, Broadway Jewelers and Visual Arts, AZ Gallery, The Show Gallery Lowertown, the Minneapolis Photo Center and Altered Esthetics Gallery.
Tom is also President of Gallery 96, a non-profit arts organization serving the northern St. Paul, MN suburbs.
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