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Amy is telling stories about her work… follow her at: @amymditto_fineart “The Story Behind The Image: “Inside Out” ©2011 Amy M. Ditto I don’t know how good of a job I’ll do keeping up with this, but I’d like to start posting some older images with background as to why they came about. We’ll start with this one. As I’ve been working on Ghostwolf’s new gallery space, I’ve been thinking about blue doors a lot… What in the world does this image have to do with blue doors? (As in, the kind we see not just all over the Southwest, but all over the world?) Here’s the story. When I first started showing my work at a gallery, I was a member of the Albuquerque Photographers’ Gallery. APG was made up of very talented, mostly more conventional photographers. People love images of doors, and a best-selling image is that of the traditional southwestern blue door. Every photographer had their own version. I didn’t. Even back then, I eschewed the conventional. The thought of doing such a scene made my skin crawl a little. I thought to myself, “I’ll Photoshop myself the best blue door ever!” rather than work with a conventional shot. I found my blue door. I worked and worked on my perfect image with the perfect sky and the perfect flowers flanking the perfect wall with the perfect door in it. I hated it. I decided to hell with the best conventional blue door, I was going to go meta and make the weirdest surreal blue door. I had the image of the arch in this piece (it’s part of the front door of a shop in Old Town ABQ), and I’m not sure exactly how I wound up going this direction, but this is what I wound up with… The original title was indeed “The Blue Door”, but I really liked “Inside Out” better. And that, is the story of my failure at the conventional turned triumph of the absurd. It’s still one of my favorite pieces.” #photography #digitalcollage #surrealism #bluedoor #thinkingoutsidethebox @ghostwolf_gallery
The intricacies of staying home. 18×18 oil cwm on panel By Jeanette Cook Follow her on Instagram at @jeanettecookart #contemporaryart #abstractglyphs #oilcwmonpanel #oilcoldwaxpainting #pandemicisolation .
