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On the Occlusions: A series begun in 2012 using Photoshop anomalies as a painter would ground & glaze a painting. They sprang into being, announcing themselves as mistakes.🧵⬇️
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2017, while staying at Lauren’s home in Whittier North Carolina, high above the banks of the French Broad River in more placid times. 🌙 ALTtext⬇️ 🍂
1st Hybrid Landscape Primary piece. What you are seeing here is a digital composite image, my first hybrid landscape primary work, although at this point it was all digitally crafted from a photograph made in the Town of Whittier, North Carolina. It's an abstracted landscape collage of an old church in gold, charcoal, sienna red & lavender, flooded by the French Broad River. It’s the first time I actually called something “a primary hybrid piece” rather than a digital composite image. I began the hybrid paintings & hybrid collages in traditional form October 5th 2017 at a small farmstead out side of Norway, South Carolina. By January 2018, I had created 23 collages combined with painting. I was building them as alternate ideas & as “starts” for the first wave of actual hybridized works crossing in & out of analog & digital modes. On return to Santa Fe December 2019 I was reconsidering the Carolinas as early as 2020. The likeliest locations were to be somewhere between Saluda, Whittier & Black Mountain, North Carolina. Whittier was different however, for I was introduced to it by my niece, a fellow artist & author. It was where she lived for 15 years while working as a Great Smoky Mountains National Park Ranger. Our family was avidly outdoorsy. Between 2011 & 2023, I metamorphosed from being a drawer & painter to an amalgamated creative. Whether one calls it interdisciplinary spectral media chameleon or post-modernist artist jumping back & forth between traditional & digital arts, I ended up finding out I loved being a shape-shifting creative. I never really had such a plan. It just happened. Like the 1980’s film “Altered States,” which brings into play my other great love, which is visual anthropology. There are times I think a plan was in the works, but whether crafted in my mind or rather some acceptance of creative osmosis, I've been able to coast currents which all seem to come back to one land. One locale. The place of self. Just being; mere knowing.
April 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Occlusions: A series begun in 2012 using #Photoshop anomalies as a painter would ground & glaze ⬇️4alt
The Occlusion series of works by Tom Ogburn are digitally originated in Photoshop by a painter who's created abstract expressionist paintings most of his career. Occlusion, as a word, came into my mind one day due to members in my family who had evolving vision impairments as they aged. While not really the proper term to use for vision blockage such as cataracts or glaucoma, I decided to hijack the term as I kept pulling back from occluded, especially after finding one of the rare uses of occlusion was as the halting of the breath when in the flow of speaking consonants. I remember one of my grandmother's eye doctors using the term occlusion to describe her failing vision. That was also where vision loss became a term that was becoming applicable to my family, for many of the Adams in late life dealt with cataracts, glaucoma & macular degeneration. As I edged into my forties & finally decided to migrate from illustration into fine art full time, these emergences of vision loss affected me all the more, both in terms of those I loved & had known all my life becoming increasingly unable to see well enough to perform many actions that we take for granted when we have good vision. Early on, as my grandmother would try to explain verbally what she was seeing which blocked her vision & how it was changing over time, all the more I began to fear the idea that I too could begin to experience vision loss. To me, for all the years I've relied on excellent vision & color perception. It was one of the worst things I could imagine; even to the point of pulling ahead of Death itself. Nowadays, while it certainly would be a staggering loss, but I have come to love painting with words. Even in total blindness, with the advent of modern digital voice recognition, I can always paint with words. Technology does have a celebrated upside when used for the common good & it also can dispel fear wrought for decades within the mind’s sense of memory & the fears stored within it.
March 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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In 2021 I started to make #photographs that had my own #digitalabstracts superimposed.

I did a series and called it Without.

#visualart #colourphotography #urbanphotography #streetphotography
January 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM