Memories, fantasies, daydreaming, and imagination were his playground as a youth. Childhood was a time where he could simply daydream and imagine far out wonderful things.
Using textures in the images helps connect with past imaginations. The use of texture gives a sense of nostalgia, inviting warmth, intrigue, and breathes life into the pictures. With this in mind he wanted to add more texture to a finished print. The application of gel medium to a flat print further developed a connection between the image and himself by making the textures more alive and the story more real. These textures also create a sense of longevity through a vintage sensibility.
Each piece is a creation of natural organic forms and textures juxtaposed against a constructivist grid. A process he call Panelism. The result is a meshing of the artificial and the organic.
Still there needs to be some level of struggle to represent life experience. This is why there’s a subdued and often obscured sense of something unresolved and unsettling within many of the images. While some seem free and whimsical there’s things left to outside forces. Others express the desire for independence, a battle to overcome something. These are expressions of experiences we all share, a commonality. And sometimes, a visual irony.
Creating photographic illustrations reconnecting him to his childhood imagination has brought a new level of freedom. These images send him to a far out place where he can escape reality for a while and be a child again and serve as a reminder that not everything is as whimsical as they seem on the surface.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Greg Noblin. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission from the artist is obtained.
Using textures in the images helps connect with past imaginations. The use of texture gives a sense of nostalgia, inviting warmth, intrigue, and breathes life into the pictures. With this in mind he wanted to add more texture to a finished print. The application of gel medium to a flat print further developed a connection between the image and himself by making the textures more alive and the story more real. These textures also create a sense of longevity through a vintage sensibility.
Each piece is a creation of natural organic forms and textures juxtaposed against a constructivist grid. A process he call Panelism. The result is a meshing of the artificial and the organic.
Still there needs to be some level of struggle to represent life experience. This is why there’s a subdued and often obscured sense of something unresolved and unsettling within many of the images. While some seem free and whimsical there’s things left to outside forces. Others express the desire for independence, a battle to overcome something. These are expressions of experiences we all share, a commonality. And sometimes, a visual irony.
Creating photographic illustrations reconnecting him to his childhood imagination has brought a new level of freedom. These images send him to a far out place where he can escape reality for a while and be a child again and serve as a reminder that not everything is as whimsical as they seem on the surface.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Greg Noblin. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission from the artist is obtained.
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