I’m sure you’ve seen closeup photos showing a drop of water making a splash. Photographer Martin Waugh has made an art form of such pictures. You should visit his site- the picture below may be striking, but the effect of scrolling through his whole gallery is electric.
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cymast
/ September 24, 2008Awesome!!
What more can be said?
acilius
/ September 24, 2008So many people say they’re going to change the way we think about the field they work in. But Waugh really does. Is “sculpture” the right word to describe his work? Maybe-the splash is a three dimensional object created as a work of art. But we usually think of sculpture as something durable, something that can be set out in a public place. Waugh’s sculptures only last for a millisecond and can only exist in just the spot where he created them. They aren’t really visible to the naked eye, only a camera can capture them as they are at that moment. So the photograph is what we see. Does that mean that the photograph is the work of art, not the splash? I don’t know. It’s really a mind-bender.
cymast
/ September 24, 2008Agreed. I’d say he’s documenting his art, and the documentation becomes art as well.
acilius
/ September 25, 2008So it does. The more you look at his work, the more boundaries he challenges. And the pictures are pretty, too, did I mention that.