Thursday, February 28, 2008

scott johnson







I love his work! At a distance they look like abstracts, up close they are a cut-outs of humans just simply being humans. They become extraordinary when taken out of context like this.

Here's what he has to say: "Up close, the unique personality of an individual can be detected. Upon retreating to observe a large group of people from a distance, individual sentiment will dissolve into the abstract patterns of a crowd. Whether these patterns suggest a street fair, a protest, or a tragic disaster, the negative space surrrounding the event offers an absence of context, isolating the brush strokes in a sea of neutral color as if they were a school of fish. "

4 Comments:

Blogger Kate said...

wow, im crazy about the second one, how its just cut off on the sides..really interesting

11:32 PM  
Anonymous my love for you. said...

beautiful. i really like what he says about groups of people becoming patterns from afar. very interesting, and a totally new way to look at crowds.

11:58 PM  
Blogger deborah said...

these are amazing.

12:29 PM  
Blogger Joanna Goddard said...

fantastic.

1:21 PM  

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