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Brandon Jacob Hudson
 Portfolio Artist Statement Online Information   Absorbed Reflection #1  Absorbed Reflection #2  Absorbed Reflection #4  In my most recent artworks, a record of light is blended with a record of life. I draw, paint, and add texture to the photographs I take. I use this process to create imagery that collaborates the observation of a space and objects within it with these same spaces and objects as they appear as ink on a sheet of paper, immobile and detached from their original context. The photographs are illusions into a past space or absent thing, but I treat them almost like young plants, watching them grow as I add new media over them. I draw with the image and let it guide my new lines, textures and colors. There is no desired goal or ultimate destination, but simply a shared experience. I mainly contribute when I decide to press the shutter-release button on the camera, hoping to make a record of a time and place that I will later return to and confront an indescribable impulse to slowly feel and make conscious the life from which they came.
In the Absorbed Reflections series, I collaborate with reflections by making several photographs of a certain scene looked at through a reflective surface. I then merge the photos together in Photoshop, reconstruct the printed scene onto canvas, and add mixed media over the image. The idea of working with this undefined space occurred while making and observing photographs I took of street windows. Overlaying layers of space and mixtures of familiar objects in unfamiliar ways delayed my visual perception, causing me to take a closer look at what is usually achieved unconsciously through sight. That journey, from environment to the mind, is such a quick moment, yet how that journey ends shapes the world one believes in. |
