"Art Is Useless Like a Flower is Useless"

Oscar Wilde‘s statement above is sadly true, art is useless. Nevertheless, the truth in this idea can be taken further and from another perspective truth may also be seen in the following statement: “The jewel is in the lotus.” In a further analysis the simple, fundamental truth may just be that Art in itself is the flower. Art, the flower of youth and the lotus blossom of old age.

Art is the flower of antiquity and the gift of the ancient and modern worlds, thorny though it may be at times.

I hope you will enjoy this preview the avant-garde, unique and unpredictable results of which represent perhaps a totally new, visually exciting and innovative genre of digital art-photography.  Special effects at this blog include:

Dense color saturation (reduced color saturation); haze; blur; fuzz; halo; aquatics and metallics; futuristic; lace; sand; painterly; multi-dimensional and Afro-Cubist special effects that combine to produce subtle, dramatic images that transcend the ordinary.

The photographic technique I am developing highlights abstraction with illuminated special effects and the manipulation of ambient lighting, in dazzling and unconventional ways.
 
Highly color saturated (but not high definition) dramatic and atmospheric portraiture, theatrical visual effects that are at the same time introspective and quiet.
 
I am creating a very modern series of portraits that reveal the inner and outer workings of subjects whose humanity is without pretension. The underlying spiritual and existential reality of these self portraits and my subjects, point to just how superfluous a focus on pedigree and celebrity ultimately is; humanity is our common denominator not celebrity (or the lack of it).
 
Questions emerge:

Who are the dreamers?

Who are we as introspective, sentient beings in a world we did not create?

How can the subtleties of the human condition be exemplified vis-à-vis art-photography in a perhaps wholly new light?

As it is, the effects of modernity on these subjects is sometimes introspective, sometimes it is not.   Excerpt from the essay, "Art is Useless Like a Flower is Useless"(c).