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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