Everything about this piece is simple; from the mediums to the drawings themselves. There are no extremely elaborate patterns, designs, details; just what is necessary to convey the artist's intention. He gives the perception of depth through space and simple use of value and size. The foreground is dark and larger in size while the background somewhat dissipates into nothing and sits misty along the top.
I honestly just want to walk into the piece and find myself in a calming, misty world along that coast; to meditate and escape into the state of mind where simply being is fine.
However, before I drift too far from reality...Along my travels I discovered this photographer, George Seeley, whose work, although sometimes more abstract, reminded me of this landscape and the ideals of brevity. The shots are of actual places however because of how he shot them they become somewhat abstract. They have this idea of a depth, simplicity, and dissipating shapes which I think in it's own way captures a form of strange brevity. Also, they're in black and white.
Also, George Seeley himself was inspired and loved Japanese paintings
These photographs remind me of two things. First, a calotype (which we will study shortly) that created a fuzzy image but was reproducible. Second, a novel a read not too many years ago in which one of the main characters took photographs of women and blurred them out so that they began to look like mountainscapes. These images made me think about what I could possibly be seeing here.
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