A bottle. A Buddha. An artery-busting street snack. A statue. A sign. A night suit’s silhouette. A dashboard oddity. A human pose. These squares aren’t so much how I see Korea, more fantasies made from pieces of my days.
Category: Photography
Bukhansan
After supporting the demands of the 12th largest economy, Koreans look to the weekend to recharge, or gallop. There are choices – wining, dining, singing and supra malls – but a purer escape is enjoyed by millions each year. It promotes itself just by being. Bukhansan National Park is a shared distraction, overlapping both Seoul…
Wharf Speed (2009)
Barque. Brigatine. Ketch. Sloop. Even a well-keeled head might rub the chin in query, but everyone knows a tall ship when they see one. July 16th marks a return visit of the tall ships to Nova Scotia, the eastern Canadian province that prods the Atlantic like a two-sided thumb. Return visit, it’s true. Whether four…
NSCAD Print
A few selections from Intro to Print, a class that surveyed a handful of image-making techniques, all messy, most satisfying. The polar bear was gouged into a woodblock and relief printed by rolling a paint-covered brayer over top, then squeezed through a hand-wound press onto card-stock. The goal was to go activist more or less,…
Meat Me in St. Louis
Because we can.
Darth by the Sea
Crushing the Rebellion is a dark enterprise but just as much exhausting I suspect. Incompetent generals, poor throne-room lighting and regular humiliation at the hands of heroes with names like “Luke” and “Han.” Come on. Even a Sith Lord needs to take five. On this occasion, it’s via Maritime serenity along the Nova Scotian coastline….
Leaves
Colors that might be, might have been.
The College Diet
As the last of three zines for Intro to Studio Practice, I photographed foods prior to committing them to the gut, then colorized the images in Photoshop. The resulting booklet was both a nod to color theory and what we (accurately?) assume is the college diet.
Colin Moore 