Today I am sharing more work seen at PhotoNOLA....
Clay Lipsky's project, In Dark Light, is intriguing on a number of levels. First, the work was created, for the most part, on a trip to Iceland and as we know, creating conceptual fine art images while in a foreign place, with no opportunity for previsualization, is not an easy task. But somehow, Clay instinctively found a narrative and way of working within a concentrated period of time. The other interesting aspect is what the work is about. Making imagery about depression, about loss and solitude has to have subtle nuances that are at once personal and universal, and Clay captured this subject with emotion and simplicity.
Clay works as fine art photographer and graphic in Los Angeles. His photos have been exhibited in group shows across the country, including the Annenberg Space for Photography, MOPLA, Pink Art Fair Seoul, PhotoPlace and Impossible Project NYC. He has been featured internationally in print and online in publications such as Fraction, Square, Diffusion, F-Stop, PH and Shots Magazines. Recently, he was a featured "Ten" through Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, and North Light Press will be publishing an edition of his Cuba photos through their 11+1 series. He is also an avid self-publisher with several titles that exhibit as part of the Indie Photobook Library.
In Dark Light
This series of self portraits examines my loss of identity and enduring personal journey through depression. It is a solitary path that encompasses loss of home and parent, the pursuit of beauty, work and perseverance under no religious or visceral compass. Imagined as a vast, shadowed plane
it is a private purgatory mired in fog with colors muted and senses numbed. The varied landscape acts as metaphor for life's many obstacles. Beyond the horizon lies hope for brighter days and so the lone soul carries on, albeit cast in dark light.
9 comments:
The photographs are brooding poems of solitary mystery. I wish the photographer did not feel it necessary to provide textual analysis for the work. Poetry resounds more forcefully when the poet refrains from explicating its symbols and metaphors.
These are intriguing. I love them.
When Clay pulled the black hat and cape out of his gear bag, I was suspect. But then watching him work was like witnessing a man possessed. There was not a frame less than fantastic. So great to see it as a completed project. Way to go, Darkman!
Poetic work, very beautiful
Really lovely, deeply personal and very moving work.
Wonderful work filed with imagination
I like to hear the artists words ...
Well done my friend. Well done.
Fantastic work! deeply personal yet universal
Clay, these images are simply exquisite. They are so right on in their mood and message. Beautifully done.
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