Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Arturo Herrera

His process is not something we can do in Photoshop. Despite our best attempts to replicate the look and feel of his photographs using digital imagery, we can only come close at best. For one, he uses film to produce his works. Secondly, he is not really sure what he's after until the pictures are exposed. It's very experimental. That's something that I've always been curious about; how do you say something with your work in experimental art? If it's experimental, and you are unsure of the outcome, how do you know it will get the message across? Maybe there's no message, or maybe a message is assigned afterwards. I know I don't always need a message, sometimes I just do things because I think it will be cool or entertaining. Maybe Herrera is the same way.

Probably not, though.

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