Guitarist, Writer, Software Developer, Photographer, Son of a Photographer. Interested in visual thinking. Interested in creativity and improvisation in all media. More about me at http://www.rudiseitz.com
Art revitalizes our awareness--our sense of our own lives and the world we inhabit--by helping us see differently. My photographs are the records of my own quest to see differently--to look closer, to observe what is usually ignored, or to notice afresh what is so common as to have become obscure.
I don't "make" photographs, I find them. I do nothing to alter the scene: if I'm looking at a leaf on the sidewalk, I won't push it a millimeter even if that might make for a better composition. (The only way I do sometimes alter a scene is by including my own shadow in it.) I shoot with modest equipment in available light, I never crop photographs, and so far I have done no post-processing of the images that come from my cameras. I present each image as I came upon it, as I saw it then and there, and as I was able to record it with whatever equipment I had in hand.
If a viewer finds something beautiful or intriguing in my photographs, I would like them to know it is as much theirs as it is mine: I didn't create the image. Rather, the image was "out there" in our shared world, waiting to be seen, just like the endless sights unfolding at this very moment, ready for the viewer him or herself to discover. Art is everywhere, in potential form, unrealized until seen; believing in art means making the effort to see it, to awaken that potential--whether it is in a museum or a dumpster.
Most of the galleries on this site, Imago, are organized by day: each gallery shows what I saw on one particular day of exploration. Some of the galleries list the images in a chronological order, others include them in a more or less random order, but in many of the galleries I've paid special attention to image sequencing. In some galleries you might notice an interplay between successive shapes -- repetition of the same visual theme in different contexts, or a juxtaposition of very different themes from the same setting.
The sound clips on this site are my own guitar improvisations.
Looking to the future of this site and my creative work: I intend to bring words, images, and sounds closer together.
Art revitalizes our awareness--our sense of our own lives and the world we inhabit--by helping us see differently. My photographs are the records of my own quest to see differently--to look closer, to observe what is usually ignored, or to notice afresh what is so common as to have become obscure.
I don't "make" photographs, I find them. I do nothing to alter the scene: if I'm looking at a leaf on the sidewalk, I won't push it a millimeter even if that might make for a better composition. (The only way I do sometimes alter a scene is by including my own shadow in it.) I shoot with modest equipment in available light, I never crop photographs, and so far I have done no post-processing of the images that come from my cameras. I present each image as I came upon it, as I saw it then and there, and as I was able to record it with whatever equipment I had in hand.
If a viewer finds something beautiful or intriguing in my photographs, I would like them to know it is as much theirs as it is mine: I didn't create the image. Rather, the image was "out there" in our shared world, waiting to be seen, just like the endless sights unfolding at this very moment, ready for the viewer him or herself to discover. Art is everywhere, in potential form, unrealized until seen; believing in art means making the effort to see it, to awaken that potential--whether it is in a museum or a dumpster.
Most of the galleries on this site, Imago, are organized by day: each gallery shows what I saw on one particular day of exploration. Some of the galleries list the images in a chronological order, others include them in a more or less random order, but in many of the galleries I've paid special attention to image sequencing. In some galleries you might notice an interplay between successive shapes -- repetition of the same visual theme in different contexts, or a juxtaposition of very different themes from the same setting.
The sound clips on this site are my own guitar improvisations.
Looking to the future of this site and my creative work: I intend to bring words, images, and sounds closer together.
© Rudi Seitz