2022 ANNUAL CoPA MEMBERS ART★BAR
JURIED EXHIBITION | Happy Accidents
The Art★Bar
Opening Reception: Friday, July 15| 5:30 PM
Comments and awards | 8:30 PM
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
– Scott Adams
Sometimes art is messy, chaotic and unpredictable. In these instances art can often end up happening to you more than you happen to it.
We visualize, we compose, we execute our technique and when we get to the post portion of our process we are often surprised. The image we thought would be the one can often disappoint; while a test shot or a mistake electrifies.
We want to see that great shot…that didn’t go according to plan. The Happy Accident.
2022 EXHIBITION
Super Mom
This mom had the weight of the world on her shoulders, and her 2 year old son by the hand. She was so attentive to his apple picking and saw his gaze at the red apples high up in the tree. She lifted him to better his reach. I was hoping to photograph the moment where he touched the apple. Only when the image was on my computer screen, I realized she lifted her kid, over her head, with ONE hand. Clearly, SUPER MOM.
SIT!
I had finally met Kona, my son’s puppy. “I can sit & put him in my lap”… Kona had other thoughts than sitting for a portrait.
