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In 2005 my home in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, was destroyed by hurricane Katrina. While attempting to wade my way through the devastation, which included many years of professional photography work, negatives, slides, proof-sheets, prints, etc., I fought off the depression we all experienced. I searched for anything that I might salvage. But what I found was much more. I began to see bits and pieces of images left behind or altered in amazing ways, by the salty waters of Katrina. I discovered that as I attempted to reconstruct the memories of my past, I was, at the same time, reconstructing a new philosophy toward life and my art. I devised ways of separating and sorting, storing and treating the thousands of images, many unrecognizable, scanning them onto my computer so that I could later begin to work with them in Photoshop. Katrina took my original work, added her touches, then I took them back and finished them off, into new works of art. Katrina had become my creative partner. For every hundred photos I had taken from me, one was left and made more precious to me. I’ve come to appreciate these “upgraded” photos more than the originals because they reflect more the true condition of life. In other words, they are more realistic than the originals. Life is seldom neat and clean. If we manage to create the illusion of cleanliness and order, it is only an illusion, for beneath it, behind the pretty facade, is the dust, the germs, the roaches of real life, crawling around. Clarity and order are illusions our minds create to make sense of chaos, to get us through the day. Once we learn to live with the chaos, appreciate the unique beauty of it, we recognize it as the magnificent dynamic that is our existence. At least until a higher order makes itself known to us. It’s the nature of man to find beauty in the chaos around us. We take disorder and re-order it. Create - From the Hebrew word, Baurau, means to organize or bring forth, not to make something out of nothing, but to reorganize that which was already in existence. Order may only be what the eye perceives in the midst of disorder. It’s the unexpected that delights and stimulates our imagination. I now try to avoid the temptation to “fix” everything. If these pictures look a mess to you, step back and look again, this time for the rhyme and reason to the lines, the faces. You’re not meant to know these people, only that they existed and survived the storm. Everyone should experience a hurricane or two in their lives. Perhaps they do and just call it by a different name. |
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Total number of images: 50
- Carolyn in a Blue Mood
- Description: Archival digital print, 13x19 from the PEOPLE series To see more of this series, go to: http://web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
- Balance
- Description: Archival digital print, 11x17 From the DANCE series. To see more of this series, go to: http://web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
- Benjamin
- Description: Archival digital print, 13x19 From the PEOPLE series. To see more from this series, go to: http://web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
- Ancient Bones
- Description: Archival digital print,13x19 From the ABSTRACTS series. To see more from that series, go to: http://web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
- Cathryn
- Description: Archival Digital Print - 11x17 from PEOPLE Series See complete series at: http://web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
- Roya - Malibu 1992
- Description: Archival digital print, 13x19 From the "PEOPLE" series To see complete series, go to: http://web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
- Erin en Bleu
- Description: Archival digital print, 13x19, From the PEOPLE series. To see more from this series, go to: http:web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
- Faberge
- Description: Archival digital print, 13x19, From the ABSTRACTS series. To see more from this series, go to: http;//web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
- Jinn
- Description: Archival digital print, From the EYES series. To see more of this series, go to: http://web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
- Time Out
- Description: Archival digital print, 13x19, From the PEOPLE series. To see more of this series, go to: http://web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
- Fishing The Back Bay
- Description: Archival digital print, 18x18, From THE SOUTH series. To see more of this series, go to: http://web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
- Holding Tight To Something
- Description: Archival digital print, 11x17. From the PEOPLE series. To see more of this series, go to: http://web.mac.com/lokeyproductions
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