Wild Caught Art
Original Intention of the Photo Project:
Exploring one of the largest open-air craft markets in Mexico presented another opportunity to continue my folio series highlighting the street vendor. For years I had been photographing these tirelessly toiling people and their struggle to survive. By shear chance, what I wound up discovering and eventually shooting was a revelation … an accidental encounter with accidental art.
Draped over acres of marketplace on the bustling main and side streets of Tonala, in the state of Jalisco, tarpaulin canopied stalls protect merchants and patrons alike from the intense Mexican sun and afternoon thunderstorms.
The configurations of tarp-strewn stalls and the way in which they visually interact with each other have by sheer chance become magnificent visual compositions and expressions. The working title for the images is ”Wild Caught Art”.
“Wild Caught Art” (WCA):
WCA is a series of worldwide photographic explorations in which each volume sets out to document and demonstrate that meaningful art is continually and wholly being created and formed by happenstance and is often the byproduct of day-to-day human activity.
WCA aspires to instigate awareness and inspection of the visual mosaic and magic that surrounds each and every one of us at each and every moment. From the found object to found art, the viewer is ever challenged to look outside oneself and inside oneself, to uncover and to then see… truly see.
Exploring one of the largest open-air craft markets in Mexico presented another opportunity to continue my folio series highlighting the street vendor. For years I had been photographing these tirelessly toiling people and their struggle to survive. By shear chance, what I wound up discovering and eventually shooting was a revelation … an accidental encounter with accidental art.
Draped over acres of marketplace on the bustling main and side streets of Tonala, in the state of Jalisco, tarpaulin canopied stalls protect merchants and patrons alike from the intense Mexican sun and afternoon thunderstorms.
The configurations of tarp-strewn stalls and the way in which they visually interact with each other have by sheer chance become magnificent visual compositions and expressions. The working title for the images is ”Wild Caught Art”.
“Wild Caught Art” (WCA):
WCA is a series of worldwide photographic explorations in which each volume sets out to document and demonstrate that meaningful art is continually and wholly being created and formed by happenstance and is often the byproduct of day-to-day human activity.
WCA aspires to instigate awareness and inspection of the visual mosaic and magic that surrounds each and every one of us at each and every moment. From the found object to found art, the viewer is ever challenged to look outside oneself and inside oneself, to uncover and to then see… truly see.
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