Althea Brown

 

Dimensionality, the spatial property of having dimensions, encompasses

more than just weight, height, length or even depth.  It also considers

the concept of time, which takes on the duality of infinite and finite

properties.  This dimensional aspect piques my interests and informs

my work.  To capture the beauty, the glory, the atrocity of one moment

in time from the perspective of one perceived dimension, then

stretching the mind and imagination to investigate other dimensional

possibilities is fascinating.  Acquiring eyes to “see” is the infinite creative challenge.  My genre, Magical Realism, encompasses the seen and

unseen, the known and unknown and all the natural variances of layers

within  dimensionality.

 

Photography appropriates one moment in time.  Although the process

of imaging may cull down to a two-dimensional surface, depth is

exposed as time transpires. Dimensionality has the classic energy of

a trickster and the elusiveness of a shape shifter: always desiring the

consistency of change.  The trickster's energies may coerce the

observers into believing they know what the photograph is all about,

but they have not been privy to the reality of the ensuing narrative

that led to that singular moment in time.    As eyes begin to learn how

to “see” they move beyond the quotidian view to capture the depths

of the shape shifter as she unmasks more than the eyes could discern.

  Given time, knowledge unveils the eyes to begin to envision other

connective tissues that the shape shifter will reveal, although they have

always been there in the photograph.  As an Environmental

Expressionist, my art in photography is to present the trickster and

shape shifter in ways that they may inform and most of all creatively

inspire one to “see” the real magic that abounds, disclosing a portal

into Magical Realism.