ABOUT | Perhaps this is a strange obsession, using a camera to paint. Yet light is the easiest of materials to work and a constant source of beauty. It also creates the least amount of mess.
To borrow from my instagram account @mikenyerges, my photographic work reflects the contingencies of time and place, insight and mood. It reflects those moments of chance when the world and experience converge and visually collapse. Thomas Nail writes, “The world, body, and brain entrain with one another like interlocking eddies floating down a stream.” These are the contingencies, emerging into a world falling inward. Not standing apart. A world folded into the lived experience. Phantoms in the mind’s ephemeral machinery. Phantoms of the machine.
I’ve always felt compelled to express feelings creatively. I pounded the piano in my teens and early twenties—new-age and atonal compositions. Came very close to an undergraduate degree in theory and composition. Turned these creative energies to painting and paper collage in my twenties. Then to writing.
It’s only been the last 15 years that I’ve played with the potential of photography. Landscape. Abstract. Composites. Intentional-camera movement, ICM—using the camera like a brush to visually break the world and reshape it in unpredictable and interesting ways. Cleanly machined. Fields of energy in a common space. Art of assemblage. Abstracts. The influence of surrealism, impressionism, abstract expressionism. Atonal, atavistic, expressionist forms.
Work is organized here not to explore “a collection of different versions of the same thing.” but in the words of Wooly—a character in Amor Towles’ Lincoln Highway— “a collection of the same version of different things.”
I started exhibiting my photographic work in local and regional galleries in 2019. For a listing, see Exhibits.
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