photo for the day

A.Bonamie

this is one of more recent photos, a disjointed view.

It's a town. The fish here are very nice.

madness

quote for the day by Joe Berke:

"Mary smeared shit with the skill of a Zen calligrapher. She liberated more energies in one of her many natural, spontaneous and unself-conscious strokes than most artist express in a lifetime of work. I marvelled at the elegance and eloquence of her imagery, while others saw only her smells." The Mad as Artist-Sander L. Gilman

i like cheese.

random blog-i-ness

So a new semester has arrived already 1 photo and 1 video crit deep. Video work on random thoughts went over pretty nicely but as for my love for everything photo, I am putting alot of pressure on my work and im at a time afraid of this apparatus that I keep trying to rule over. It is a love-hate relationships of sorts, one of those relationships where you know if you dont care long enough the other will eventually swoon back after ya, but it only works one way in our relationship.

So I am currently working on my sense of self, this project will hopefully better connect me with an understanding of where I come from and how the people I surround myself with shape my character. I am interested in this because I want to know how much of my free will is in place and how much of my personality is from influence.

hopefully an update will be in progress soon. I will be shooting all weekend except for at 3pm on saturday as I am involved in a wedding dress tryout session. not for me but for my little sister, shes all grown up and getting married.

Leslie’s Keys, by Erika Ritzel

I LIKE THE HUMAN PRESENCE SHOWN IN ERIKA RITZELS PHOTO "LESLIE'S KEYS," I'LL LET HER SPEAK FOR HERSELF.

I focus the camera on domestic interiors; these are the spaces I believe have the most emotional resonance. When people leave, objects remain which hold the meaning of their owner. These environments may be void of human life, but a residue of presence remains, which retains the meaning of their inhabitants and embodies the history of the space. The people might leave the location, but they are never really absent. When photographing, I respond to places that are familiar to my own experience of domestic space, whether directly or indirectly.

Hey thats where I put those keys.

My Box

Box by A. Bonamie

A quite rough idea of my current work in progress!

THE INSTITUTION
By Aimee Bonamie

A moment of stillness in all that is chaotic.
She lives within these spaces, day to day without notice of the minute things.
Removing the temporal clutter of our daily environment
Emptying the image of all that personalizes the space.
Containing complete control of the situation
Allotting her self a simplistic view of what is left.
These minimal images are within the areas of their own space and awareness.

What remains are the dark spaces
There is no control, only the individual
There is no form, only exploration
The dark areas are like a vacant road on a long journey where the silence reveals only oneself, no birds chirping or grasshoppers humming.
Hiding away, keeping a distance.
It is a place existing without measurement.
This space is a balance between her self

A moment between the visible and invisible.

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She is not breaking the disembodied form of reality but seeing a small glimpse within it, the tiny cracks and inconsistencies in which one gets lost. This is the space of the home in which our bodies are deducted. The unknown body enters the space and turns into none other than us minus ourselves. The voices in a distance, clutter seems to fade, she is leading one and one alone. Where chaos is as relevant as order, and where the common is as important as the extraordinary.

She lives in these spaces by compensating with acts of the imagination,
Emphasizing the absent to create a power for the not absent.

Photooooo

Photos by A. Bonamie

I decided to add a couple more just so I can see how they look all together..... Nice!