My art process
HOW I WORK
WHAT I CREATE
GIVE ME COLOR!
GIVE ME COLOR!
My abstract expressions are dream-initiated, cerebral, visceral, artworks - "...come, dream with me!"
- Emergence & Descent - I am intrigued by these qualities in my subjects of earth, air, water, & spirit in Nature, and in time & space.
- Mystical, wonder-filled - images become my subject matter often arising out of my subconscious, while d
My abstract expressions are dream-initiated, cerebral, visceral, artworks - "...come, dream with me!"
- Emergence & Descent - I am intrigued by these qualities in my subjects of earth, air, water, & spirit in Nature, and in time & space.
- Mystical, wonder-filled - images become my subject matter often arising out of my subconscious, while dreaming, or in moments of half sleep.
- Visual hybridizing - of my print compositions begin with my digital photographs.
- Merging multiples -result in my digital images being layered, 'into one, newly, created image.'
- Flexibility & experimentation - options for blending traditional and digitital materials and techniques.
GIVE ME COLOR!
GIVE ME COLOR!
GIVE ME COLOR!
"There are only, three things that you need to know about my work: Color! Color! Color!"
- Bold Color - choices ultimately impact all aspects of my image-making.
- Digital Alchemy - creating a new, 'composit-image, an image that - has never before existed!
- Differences celebrated - in my commingled images result from ble
"There are only, three things that you need to know about my work: Color! Color! Color!"
- Bold Color - choices ultimately impact all aspects of my image-making.
- Digital Alchemy - creating a new, 'composit-image, an image that - has never before existed!
- Differences celebrated - in my commingled images result from blends of: hue, saturation, and contrast.
- Colorist sensibilities - are allowed free reign in my digital process: infinite, blending adjustments, extravagant, color-saturation, and transparency.
- Enhanced design - options offer me numerous, digital tools for subtle contouring, of form, and density, in my abstract shapes.
HOW I MAKE IMAGES
"I AM A FINDER!..." - MY INSPIRATION -
Found objects often become subjects for my abstract art prints.
When I make a discovery - 'a find,' I leave what I find in situ. I create digital photographs, often composed for me, by capricious winds sweeping discarded objects on streetscapes; or waves surging flotsam and jetsam onto deserted winter beaches.
I attempt to capture the tension interlocking these collisions of mass with force; developing and creating layered, nuanced combinations for my subject matter.
Nature, the ultimate alchemist, - is constantly interacting with human activity and it's material existence. Our planet is constantly processing, rendering, redistributing, and disintegrating matter, in spite of our worst behaviors, and is endlessly attempting to renew our home.
This power struggle, cycling between the materials and actions of man, pitted against Nature's reactions, creates a dynamism, and catalyst for perpetual change. I attempt to visually harness that exuberance into my art.
My images are ephemera, sometimes momentia mori, or vanitas creations of the flash point where this interface become permanently entwined - Man & Nature.
A life-long love for the seashore persists. I'm frequently drawn to comb its beaches, dunes, and rock pool jetties -
"...for in their retreat,
the purging waves
decant
jumbled traces
of man's and the sea's
commingled detritus.
Tell-tale relics,
evidential artifacts,
marking unfortunate,
degrading collisions
of man with nature..." - Nautilus Weeps, 2021 / JS
My art process includes :
- ignoring art taboos
- venturing beyond the parameters of conventional printmaking
- fusing layered, digital imagery
- intensifying color saturation
- creating a conjured, celestial sphere
- venerating mundane objects
- entwining imaginary mutations
- experimenting, transforming, repurposing
JE ME SOUVIENS . . . Reminiscing - Romancing - Remembering -
I form layered images by blending contemporary experiences with my dreams, and reveries culled from revisiting, and traversing, mental and emotional landscapes, and childhood memories,
In my art-making: atmosphere, and the ambience of recollection, are conceived through mystic pilgrimages back-and-forth in time.
Alternating flashes of my subconscious mesh, lace and flavor my work...je me souviens.
John Salvi, BLACK SPOON, 2019, digital transfer, image 17 X 11 in., sheet, 15 X 22 in.