Today’s art feature for January 2026 explores expressionism via composite photography. The original photographs within these pieces were taken on different shores in Massachusetts and Florida.
With “Venus Walking On Water,” there’s a sense of awe, wisdom and contemplation about the nature of beauty and desire from ancient to modern times, how some values are timeless and yet they evolve. I realize that I was definitely inspired in concept and composition by the very famous painting, “The Birth Of Venus” by Botticelli. Some of the meaning carries over, and some is different. Antiquity and nature here glide across the futuristic, digital cubist substrate of the background.
“Prayer On The Shore” is a simpler spiritual composite in black & white, with a large angel kneeling on the shore of the Florida Keys. It evokes connection and reverence with nature and the divine. It’s been a fun and meaningful task finding these complimentary shots, and bringing them together to express the hyperreal, or enhanced meaning of combined perspectives.
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