“Book of Natural Distortions”
My latest photography/illustrated book titled “Book of Natural Distortions”.
The book explores how light, color, and perspective can alter how we see the world in mind-boggling ways.
…Sometimes I feel as if I am looking at something in more than one dimension.
The glass table reflects the outside world. It contains the motions of the trees and the man in the red hat lost in thought walking along the sidewalk. He has no idea that his image is contained, distorted and reflected back to me on an inanimate object. I move my head three centimeters to the left and the table becomes transparent once again. Because everything we perceive either reflects or absorbs the imagery around us, sometimes we fail to notice how most ordinary objects become activated with shapes, light, and reflection.
There are numerous mind-bending ways of observing our visual reality right in front of us that are perpetually overlooked and passively accepted as normal. Whether we choose to notice those incidents, like the man in the red hat on the glass table, is up to us, but I believe there is beauty and information about both the physical and metaphysical world within these reflections; distortions and the qualities of objects and elements interacting beyond our control or comprehension can expand our ability to think and consider the world from all angles. This book serves to document some of those aforementioned physically metaphysical moments, and present my reactions to witnessing them. As a visual artist, I often interpret my understanding through abstract means. Therefore, some of my revelations come in the form of a drawing or photo.
