Nature photography, cards, clothing
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email: beethepeace@yahoo.com
Website: www.characterofnature.com
Artist Statement
My love for photography started when I was a child growing up in the country. Being small and loving the outdoors, I was always drawn to the small details of nature. I wanted to capture them and remember their beauty always. But my little Fisher-Price camera didn't preserve the images I took. In 1991 when I started my Art Education degree I took a photography class. I new I had found my passion! It s only fitting that my work has been centered around nature. My desire to view and expose natures little intricacies sometimes leads to abstractions of nature. Sometimes this happens with a single shot of something so up close it's identity is left questionable or arranging a single image of nature repeatedly in a kaleidoscope image or taking bits and pieces of my nature photographs and collagen them together to create unique characters. The later is the focus of my recent work. I often find myself becoming one with nature whether I am on a neighborhood walk with my young boys or in the woods for hours by myself. I hear and speak to the Characters of Nature, as like to call them, as I find their hair in a twisted piece of vine, their body in a dried up piece of Queen Ann's lace, or their mouth in a mushroom. I then add quotes to capture their personalities and maybe the personalities of your friends and family. Currently I am working on a series of children's books. The books will consist of unique animal characters made in the same way as my current characters. The stories will be social stories to guide, support, and honor children who have difficulties socially. Visit me at www.characterofnature.com
Wishing Great Discoveries,
Daniele Ippoliti-DeShaw
