Burnt Sticks Bushes - The Collection: 11" x 17" |
John Dingler’s down-to-earth, mostly B&W Burnt Bushes series collection, taken in Naples, Italy, is a marked departure from his outer worldly topic in his UFO Girl series and in which he employed a lush color palette. It was also a narrative.
The Burnt Bushes series is a sustained examination of how to create visual equivocations in the landscape planes: Which branches are wholly inside the orb and which ones extend to the outside. There are no self-contained orbs; All have inside and outside combinations.
Just how did John include a different background inside the orb from the background on the outside while, at the same time, have only some of the sticks inside the orb bleed outwardly and vice versa? I think this compels the mind to dwell longer on the orb, hence on the image, instead of merely glancing and quickly looking away. "I do not intend to trick the viewer, but to entertain as in magic. Tony Delap does this in his shaped canvases," Dingler says. "This project has to be one of my most elegant, naturalistic, and simple (in contradistinction to simplistic) series."
The Burnt Bushes series is yet another example of the wide range of interests that Dingler's mind traverses with an explorer's focus.
The Burnt Bushes series is a sustained examination of how to create visual equivocations in the landscape planes: Which branches are wholly inside the orb and which ones extend to the outside. There are no self-contained orbs; All have inside and outside combinations.
Just how did John include a different background inside the orb from the background on the outside while, at the same time, have only some of the sticks inside the orb bleed outwardly and vice versa? I think this compels the mind to dwell longer on the orb, hence on the image, instead of merely glancing and quickly looking away. "I do not intend to trick the viewer, but to entertain as in magic. Tony Delap does this in his shaped canvases," Dingler says. "This project has to be one of my most elegant, naturalistic, and simple (in contradistinction to simplistic) series."
The Burnt Bushes series is yet another example of the wide range of interests that Dingler's mind traverses with an explorer's focus.
For artist John Dingler,
the limited-edition Burnt Bushes Collection is a mystical examination of variations and textures. "It emerges out of a passion that I have as a thoroughly committed artist and, from my European heritage, and an understanding of beauty and elegance of what landscapes can be," he says. This collection has so many exquisite images, and I have tried to encapsulate here the elegance of textures I saw on location there.