Creative Process 5

 Combining the spirits sculptures with photographs of trees or a house became a very exciting project involving photography and photoshop techniques.
 I found a group of photographs taken by Enrique Rodriguez Boulan in Maine. Some of them take place at the Olsen's House near Rockport, Maine. This house belonged to a family that Andrew Wyeth was close to when he was painting in that area. Both the exterior and interior of the house inspired him to paint very beautiful watercolors.
The house is now open to the public and a visit to it shows the corners, rooms and light that Andrew Wyeth found visually and probably emotionally mesmerizing.
To me these photographs are great as background for the assembly with the spirits sculptures because they portrayed the house as an old, empty and mysterious place. It couldn't be a better place to be occupied by spirits.
Here are two pictures assembled from interior photographs of the house.

                                                                                  

Creative process 4

Creative Process 4

The Spirits sculpture was photographed from different angles and at different stages of assembly.
However one idea stuck in my mind.  In my  initial daydream/fantasy that I had about the spirits floating around,  the spirits were hiding in the woods. It occurred to me that I could use a photograph of trees or countryside where I could superimpose the pictures of the Spirits sculptures and create a series of photographs depicting landscapes with the uncanny element of a floating sculpture around it.
Here is the first photograph. I titled it The Spirits's visit.

                                                The Spirits'svisit       Photo  assemblage

These fabric sculptures, that I called spirits, are meant as transitional objects. They represent important objects, people no longer present in someone's life. They would be the equivalent of the security blanket for a toddler , usually a piece of fabric or material made to substitute for the child's parents and be soothing when they are away. Similarly the idea of spirits implies a partial presence of a meaningful
person. I like the fact that they are made of fabric. Ghosts are also covered by fabric when they are represented in drawings or paintings. Fabric gives the sculptures a soft, floating appearance that can be moved and change with simple touches.

The creative process III