Wamboin workshop
This is an image of the outside of my Wamboin workshop at night.
The image is a picture, a big picture. A big frame can make a big picture. Once framed, the items within the picture become more compelling, richer, more magical. The bits get conscripted to the whole.
The photo is taken front on, not obliquely. This makes the frame more active, to make that which is contained, stronger, vivid.
A picture is closer to art than an image. An image is what you get mostly, when you shoot stuff on your iPhone. You might get a good photo but that’s not a picture.
Why is art better? It’s more enriching to the soul. It steadies you like an image can’t. It’s affirming, reassuring, deeply satisfying. Those are the experiences we need, to get by.
It helps here having a big black night frame around the picture. What is contained by that just has to give in.