Photo-Ology Journal

Scribbled in "N" on STONE ... with LOVE

2008-03-23T21:49:00.000-07:00

"D + P"

"I LOVE"

"Between the Sheets #1"

"Between the Sheets #2"

"BILL luvs ALICIA Love-2-3-2000"

"PEE WEE PUMPKINHEAD"

"ILIA & SCOTT 1-1-2004"

"Play Forever in Paradise"

"THE HIGH ROAD"

"LLK loves JKK"

"For Juliet our playmate"

Y+G Jenn 99

B+N

F B M

Diamonds are like grains to be sown.

THE SUBJECT WAS JUST LAYING THERE

2008-03-23T13:04:00.000-07:00

FOUND OBJECT #1

ANIMALS FOR MY ARK

2008-03-23T13:02:00.000-07:00

Two Golden Stags

Madame Winters Moon Eyed Dog

The Toad King

The Spider and his Web of Life

A Caravan of Canada Geese

Three Squirrels

The Tundra Frogs

A Magic Horse and the Chariot

The Midnight Opossum

A HumanizeDroid that can speak every animal language

A White Coyote

A Fox Snake

The Dragon

A Queen's Unicorn

A King's Lion

The Rabbit

A Technological Horse

A FROG PRINCE

A WARRIOR'S EAGLE

A FLOCK OF DUCKS

HOLT'S STALLION

A Herd of Horses

A Leopard Frog

A Mothering Opossum

A Family of Swans

A GREAT WHITE DANCING BEAR

SWIMMERS IN THE SUNKEN ARCTIC CITY

photo documents of ART!!!

2008-03-23T12:55:00.000-07:00

www.normanbarney.ca

www.normanbarney.ca

www.normanbarney.ca

www.normanbarney.ca

ETERNAL LAMPS

2008-03-23T11:30:00.000-07:00

THE ART OF THE ANONYMOUS

2008-03-23T11:29:00.000-07:00

THE PHOTO AGAIN COLLECTION
-------------------------------------------

Held at Gallery Lambton
August 27 to October 1, 2005

ISBN 1-896636-20-9

The painting and collage you see below is a historical portrait of photography. The authentic photos used for kitsch are from the 1850's to the 1960's. That is why the daguerreotype gets the penthouse and then Ambrotype and Ferrotype and so on.

"Daguerreotype City was never the same when the others appeared"
36'' x 54'' 2005
acrylic on canvas with antique found objects

Close up

Detail of the third floor.

Detail of the fifth floor.

Detail of 1853 Little Gem Tin Type (Size of postage stamp)

WHY COLLECT OLD PHOTOS?

" Photos for $1.00 selling mysterious and beautiful unknown strangers, frozen in a past of forgotten memories, sharing their untold stories in the present.
An antique photograph is a found object with an image of silver particles on glass, tin, and paper, thus turned into memory images discarded by people unknown. Some of the found objects have writing and information where some do not. The scribbles on the backs are like riddles, titles for the lost forgotten face now remembered by a future stranger, inspired!.

These "human memory cards" played from the deck of Life is sacred history inside family circles until a generation comes along throwing these heirlooms into an ocean of yard sales.
Others wash up as bric-a-brac on junk collectors shelves to be recycled by me, the Artist, incorporating the canvas into "The Rest of the Story". Photos were made for social reasons,
a remembering that was portable and wondrous to the eyes of the generation that dawned photography.

Star Mother Stories by Firelight
10'' x 12'' 2005
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic
Now in a private collection

Mothers and Fathers Write on Our Chalk Boards of Who We Are
10'' x 14'' 2005
Antique Photo with Archival colored India Ink

Back Side

"Deer Mother: We're all fine and we've made five bucks out here in the British Columbian Frontier.Love Your Daughter; Jane Doe"
8'' X 10'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink

WHY RENDER OLD PHOTOS?

This exhibit is a collaborate effort involving the handwork of a photographer from the past, with my signature today. As an artist, I recognize the labour of another Artist capturing the essence of history while honouring the photographer's traditional printing methods in the creation of each image. I see artistic potential incorporating themes and serendipity while weaving "our past' and "their future" into a visual relationship asking, "Can you imagine?"
The found object photograph somehow comes to the truthful unartistic closeness to trueth for the one that pressed the shutter button. Someone from the past freezing with a archaic camera, a moment from getting old. They become snapshots as social anonymous memoirs, snapshots as social memory.
As artists and writers, as hoarders and exploiters of snap shot imagery, who are inspired by discovering meaning within lost and abandoned, overlooked objects. That searching and experimentation for a new raw material. I personally cherish the memories of what the past represents, as well as what a Century Old Smile of happiness really looked like!

Yeah Yeah Baby, thats right, I'm a Sagittarius...the most philosophical of all the signs
12'' x 16'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink
Now in a private collection

Tribal Princess
8'' x 10'' 2004
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

Backside

Our Night Outside
6'' x 6'' 2004
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

Backside

There exists others on this planet that explore the anonymous concept such as Micheal Blagsden, Norm Barney, Micheal Wilson, Norman Kulkin.
A traditional expressionistic photographer (Cairenn L.A. Russelo) will speak now on The "Photo-Again" Collection.

Rotate back time's hands to an era when photography was non-expressive and struggling to earn a place beside traditional art forms. The Photo-Secession movement, pioneered by photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1901, introduced the photo print medium as an articulate epoch in the art world. In 1754, the English author Horace Walpole inducted the expression "Serendipity" as diction. artist Jon-Erik Kroon, in 2005, asks the question, "Could the past ever have imagined our future?" in his exhibit collaborating non-expressive photography with serendipitous renderings expressing "Life Then and Life Now".

Suggestive Subconscious Future
7'' x 9'' 2004
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

The photo alone asks...who are these people? What are their stories? Where are they now? Why were they photographed? When were they photographed? How did they envision the future?

Guardian of Lost Knowledge
8'' x 10'' 2004
Antique Photo with India Ink, Acrylic,and Gold Leaf

The Photo rendered asks... Whose birthday is it anyway? What came first, the chicken or the egg? Where did the Carpet Bagger Crain take the Mushroom Queen's Baby? Why are we genetically growing people? When did our children's toyz become so violent? how do we get to Jasper Park to see the U.F.O's?....and who the heck is Star Child?

Mother Cozmos and the Star Child
6'' x 8'' 2004
Antique with India Ink and Acrylic
Note: Now in a permanent private collection

Back side

The Artist begins his journey with a traditional photographic portrait as a mini canvas. using his mind's eye, he ventures through visible and invisible shadows creating metaphors of what is and what isn't already there.

A Beautiful Stranger
10'' x 12'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink

"I start by asking questions. who are you? Where did you come from?I study the overall condition of care the picture traveled to reach me here on this path. I ponder the photographer's presentation through use of technique, tone, props, back-drops, mood, posture, and attitude. Every set of eyes has a certain direction and reflection within. What are these eyes saying?(Look at the harsh glare of a stone cold heart perceived in "The Grintch of the 1800's," reflects this questioning)".

The Invisible Friend
9'' x 11'' 2004
Antique photo with India Ink
now in a private collection

"A vignette background exhibits an angelic aura to a young face. A hand appears to be holding something. A fur blanket with folds that appear to resemble the spirit of an animal. Hair in the shape of a bird. There is natural serendipity within a natural fold of a skirt". (Distinctive in "The Invisible Friend").

Look Mommy I Built Us A Bomb
9'' x 12'' 2004
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

3 Halo Savior Child
8'' x 10'' 2004
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

" I reinterpret a life trapped within each character captured in the photograph. Images identified with names form an intimacy between the subject and myself . Yet at the same moment there is an intimacy between myself and the photographer."

The American Man
8'' X 10'' 2004
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

" I spend hours, sometimes days, within each image before recreating something else from the bones of another creation."

Annie Blackburn, Queen of the Hawk Women
8'' x 10'' 2004
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

These photos derive from a vision of life, once simple, yet conform into a portrait of complex existence stirring anxieties of reality within us. Do we chuckle at the shadows of our past? Or are we shying away from illumination of their future? We ponder the loneliness in the non-smiling portraits of strangers while the artist's interpreted truth bewilders our conscious emotions.

Who's Birthday is it?
9''x12'' 2002
Antique Photo with oils

Were these unknown individuals to view these renderings in their era, these prophecies would interpret as realism representing surrealism. As viewers in today's awareness, we understand these theories as realism representing realism.

Yo Yo Baby
11'' x 14'' 2000
Antique Photo with acrylic and India ink
Note: Now in a permanent private collection

We wonder.....what serendipitous future haunts the negative spaces within our generation of photographic keepsakes?

Could the women of the Past Ever Imagined a World of Vertual Sex?
8'' x 10'' 2000
Antique Photo with magazine collage
Note: now in a permanent private collection

A Curious Occurrence
11'' x 14'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink

Toys for children
11''x13'' 2002
Antique Photo with India ink and Collage

Charmion Estella Slatter
8''x10'' 2003
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic
Artists Note: This name was scribbled on the back

Village Beauties Then and Now
11''x14'' 2000
Antique Art Card with India Ink and pencil Crayon

The Legend
10''x14'' 2000
Antique photo with India Ink

One Eyed Photographer
5''x7'' 2001
Antique Photo with India Ink

Rosita's Serendipity
9''x12'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink

She Always Wanted to be in a Picasso
5'' x 7'' 2001
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic
Note: Now in a permanent private collection

Our Future
5''x7'' 2000
Antique photo with India Ink and Silver metallic paint.

Olive's Gift
8''x10'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic
Artist's Note: This was the name scribbled on the back

Ollie and Mimi are Looking Hot
11''x14'' 2003
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic
Artist Note: These names were scribbled on the front.
Note: Now in a permanent private collection

The Mushroom Child Will Dream the Arithmetic of Trees
8''x10"" 2003
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

Mr. God
4''x6'' 2001
20th century photograph with stamp,scratched vocabulary

Miss Bertha Good
8''x10'' 2002
Antique Photo with India Ink
Artist's Note: This was the name scribbled on the back
Now in a private collection

Mickey Mouse Club
5''x7'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink

Lots of Luck Betty
5''x7'' 2000
Antique photo with India Ink and Acrylic
Artist's Note: "lots of luck " was already written on

Johny Unkown
8''x10'' 2000
Antique photo with India Ink

Jasper Park Lodge
5''x10'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink

Take a trip
4'' x 8''
20th Century Photograph with Gold and Black Ink

Hey Teach
8''x10'' 2001
Antique Photo with India Ink

Grandmothers of Heart and Soul
5''x7'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink
Note: Now in a permanent private collection

The Grinch
5''x7'' 2001
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

Greetings Agnes
4''x6'' Oval 2001
Antique Tin Type with India Ink

Genetically Grown People Some Day
8''x10'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink
Note: Now in a permanent private collection

The General "Rocky Mountain Way"
5''x10'' 2000
Photo with India Ink

Keepers of the Fire Fly Drum
14'' x 18'' 2002
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

False Face
5'' x 7'' 2001
Antique Photo with India Ink

Eskimo Chief "Reflection in Hand"
5'' x 10'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink

Enemies
6'' x 7'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink

Dearest
8'' x 10'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink
Note: Now in a permanent private collection

Dear Diary
5'' x 7'' 2001
Antique Tin Type with India Ink

Mr. Clyde Hamiline
8'' x 10'' 2001
Antique Photo with India Ink
Artist's Note: This was the Name scribbled on the Back
Note: Now in a permanent private collection

The Original Expressionist
6'' x 8'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

Chicken or the Egg
5'' x 7'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

The Mushroom Queen's Baby
8'' x 10'' 2001
Antique Photo with India Ink
Note: Now in a permanent private collection

The Bull frog Brothers
10'' x 14'' 2003
Antique Photo with India Ink and Acrylic

Deer Family
5'' x 7'' 2001
Antique Photo with India Ink
Note: Now in a permanent private collection

American Big Foot Family
5'' x 7'' 2002
Antique Photo with India Ink

Mr. Adolfus Hicks at his own New Years Party
6'' x 9'' 2001
Antique Photo with India Ink

3 Virtue Muses
5'' x 7'' 2000
Antique Photo with India Ink and Pencil

(:TREES OF LOVE:)

2008-03-23T11:28:00.000-07:00

"Janet Was Here"
Loveya-glyph #54

"LISA"
Loveya-glph #53

"Rick + Linda"
Loveya-glyph #52

"Walt Smiles"
Loveya-glyph #51

"S.W. + C.J. 4-Ever"
Loveya-glyph #50

"JILL luvs KEN"
Loveya-glyph #49

"KATIE verses THE WORLD"
Loveya-glyph #48

"ELIZABETH + STEVEN 3/27"
Loveya-glyph #47

"I LUV J"
Loveya-glyph #46

"Skull"
Loveya-glyph #45

"DAVE P (R.I.P.)"
Loveya-glyph #44

"LUV NIKKI"
Loveya-glyph #43

"MEGAN"
Loveya-glyph #42

"ED + CHANCE"
Loveya-glyph #41

"A + M"
Loveya-glyph #40

"JOY LOVES DOUG?"
Loveya-glyph #39

"G. + T. .......I THINK?"
Loveya-glyph #38

"I LUV JUAN"
Loveya-glyph #37

"T. T. + C. G. 4EVER"
Loveya-glyph #36

"A + A"
Loveya-glyph #35

"KRYSTIN + SHIRVIN forever 08.29.05"
Loveya-glyph #34

"MEL + ANDY"
Loveya-glyph #33

"M M"
Loveya-glyph #32

"Lovers Tree #2"
Location: Shakespeare Ontario Canada
Loveya-glyph #31

" H S + D S 1977 /_ / _"
Loveya-glyph #30

"G B LL B H"
Loveya-glyph #29

"Loveya-glyph #28 1982"
Note: The trees growth has made to glyph unreadable....do to TIME!

"R. M. E. M. MAY 3-1-7"
Loveya-glyph #27

"BD + OC"
Loveya-glyph #26

"CC + MB"
Loveya-glyph #25

"A Lovers Tree"
Location: Stratford Ontario Canada
Loveya-glyph #24

"J + B MD"
Loveya-glyph #23

"JESSE PUP 9/11/02"
Loveya-glyph #22

"R. P. + F. S."
Loveya-glyph #21

"SUE + JOE"
Loveya-glyph #20

"ALLISON + GEORGE"
Loveya-glyph #19

"J + B"
Loveya-glyph #18

"EDEN"
Note: Carved on a tree in the dead center of town.
Loveya-glyph #17

"I (JY) E"
Loveya-glyph #16

"KATIE 10-30-05"
Loveya-glyph #15

"BECKY 07"
Loveya-glyph #14

"R + S"
Loveya-glyph #13

"R S M R"
Loveya-glyph #12

"89M B D"
Loveya-glyph #11

"S O luvs K H 85"
Loveya-glyph #10

"P A luvs M A"
Loveya-glyph #9

"K W"
Loveya-glyph #8

"R + J"
Loveya-glyph #7

"CK luvs DAK 04 06 07"
Loveya-glyph #6

"JONNY"
Loveya-glyph #5

"L + D"
Loveya-glyph #4

"88"
Loveya-glyph #3

"COWAN"
Loveya-glyph #2

"MAP"
Loveya-glyph #1

#'s NUMBERS s'#

2008-03-23T11:26:00.000-07:00

THE HUNT

2008-03-23T11:25:00.001-07:00

hmmmmmmm........Its a beautiful scene.....here in the great lakes area...... inside January..........Canada goose meat basted in maple syrup and garlic cloves...... Canvas Back with bacon and wrapped in white asparagus..... with the juice basted on.... :-).... with fresh squeezed cilantro...... and golden eye breast...shake n bake with onions and horse radish...... stir fried in olive oil and sliced pickles......with just ever a slight shake of ground sadge..............and a roaring fire.......candles....... and a 2007 red wine Baeujolais.......and let a mid winter feast begin!!!

Thank you deer spirit for feeding our family circle

GRAFFEETTEE...FOR THE MASSES

2008-03-23T11:25:00.000-07:00

WEBBS AND CATERPILLARS

2008-03-23T11:24:00.000-07:00

The Velocity Crucifixion

Snow Spider Document #1

Snow Spiders Document #2

Upper Thames (Avon) mystery dragon fly
Trip-Tic

THE PHOTO WITHIN THE PICTURE

2008-03-23T11:23:00.000-07:00

Personal Note: In a worn out space with wallpaper peeling off like snake skin, there hangs an aged face. Taped to a stained piece of cardboard, is a crinkled and cracked fragile black N white photo of a forgotten old man, in a forgotten old room.

Viewing a 1913 era Glass Negative on a Beach in California

Viewing a 1913 era Glass Negative at 35 000 Feet over the United States of America.

FOUND OBJECTS @ THE BEACH

2008-03-23T11:22:00.000-07:00

ARTIST"S STILL LIFES FOR STUDY

2008-03-23T11:21:00.000-07:00

Tree Sculpture to utilize reflections (2003)
Image Captured with manual film camera
Film: Fuji RVP 100F developed on a Noristu Koki and then negs transferred to a Kodak picture CD

A (2003)

B (image 180) (2003)

C (2003)

D (Image 180) (2003)

E (2003)

F (2003)

Fresh Fallen Snow on BitterSweet (Study)

Found Objects Assembled

Snow Scribble on the Bottom of My Kayak #1

Snow Scribbles on the Bottom of my Kayak #2

Gothic Tree Bark

Chair for the Little People Upon a Moss Covered Stone

Study of found object interpreted as MAN WALKING. This is a 7ft dried tree branch with humanoid features. The head of the figure is a natural piece of split wood, yet I carved the nose with a saw. Marsh reed leaves have been stapled upon the head and around the neck.
the intent was to create an outdoor installation using natural occurring objects in nature.
Materials used: 1 row of staples and 2 wood screws

Study Of Man Walking
Date: 2008

Detail of Moose Horns

Moose Horns in a Snow Dune

Experimental Camera lens #3

Discovering Mother Earth

Forgotten On The Forest Floor

The Dreamer of Trees

The below 3 photo documents are capturing a sculpture using found objects to portray motherhood. It became very apparent during the hunting and gathering of the materials that the art making became inner tribal. Not till I had erected it in the forest, did it occur to me that this is my inner inherent tribal coming forth in the rhythm of making art.
The figure is all composed of natural pieces of wood and a broken angel and a few wood screws.
When viewing the metaphor for baby, it has no head...symbolizing that the baby has germinated inside the womans womb...yet the baby has not been named yet....thus no head, no identity....once mother and father comune on the realization of each created a baby.....then the parents dream together; the identity of the baby......and its born with a face.

The construction is 8ft high and is only 4 piecses of naturally formed wood.

Full View of MotherHood
Date: 2008

Experiment with laminating insect wings between 2 sheets of acrylic.
This is an attempt to create a new lens for my camera, where by I can shoot through and still acquire a background with layers.

Stones with Glass

Experimental Camera Lens #2

Study for tree growing through a snapping turtle shell

THE FOG

2008-03-23T11:20:00.000-07:00

(LOOKING INSIDE)

2008-03-23T11:19:00.000-07:00

Personal Note: I saw a Hobo go in here, and when I took the shot.....all that one could hear was the sounds echoing....... of someone walking through puddles and grumbling.... and then tripping over a bottle!

LOOKING UP^^^^^

2008-03-23T11:17:00.000-07:00

LOOKING DOWN >>>>>

2008-03-23T11:16:00.000-07:00

FOUND OBJECTS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE AVON RIVER

DIGITAL PHOTO ANOMALIES as images

2008-03-23T11:15:00.000-07:00

Images A through M are photo documents of what my camera was seeing as it was dying and frizzle-ing up on its inside. These are moments right before the camera died and was unusable.
They are interesting as images of art, for they document how technology sees its way into oblivion. What else is profound, is how the machine sees the color spectrum as its dying.
Images captured before the iris fades to black...almost visually poetic.

A

B

C

D

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

Here is another digital camera I am using out in the field and it is frying up inside.
these photos were taken while the inside hardware was degrading.
They are interesting images for a moment caught, right before technology fails.
These images are documents of what I was seeing through a camera during a system failure with my art making tool.

TECHNOLOGY FABRICATED GHOZT IMAGE #5

TECHNOLOGY FABRICATED GHOZT IMAGE #4

TECHNOLOGY FABRICATED GHOZT IMAGE #3

TECHNOLOGY FABRICATED GHOZT IMAGE #2

TECNOLOGY FABRICATED GHOZT IMAGE #1

AUTUMN COLOUR STUDIES

2008-03-23T11:13:00.000-07:00

THE HUMAN FIGURE STUDIES(PEOPLE-OLOGY)

2008-03-23T11:12:00.000-07:00

Prof. Beafheart @ the Nebula Conference in Geneva.

Christ Returning from Visiting the Unforgiven

WATER

2008-03-23T11:10:00.000-07:00

WATER PROTECTION (QUADRATIC)

FiReLiGhT

2008-03-23T11:09:00.000-07:00

Love Seat On Fire

<;{-^(SIGHNS)^-):>

2008-03-23T11:06:00.001-07:00

Portrait of Man Walking in Blizzard

FOOD

2008-03-23T11:06:00.000-07:00

A Wonderful Feast with Friends and Organic food

Farm Fresh Eggs and Home Grown Herbs

STRATFORD DINER

FOOD LINE

HAND PICKED IN CALIFORNIA

CHINA TOWN

MARSH BUCK

A.M. AROMA

BREAD RITUAL

JUST ((PLAIN ORDINARY)) SCENES

2008-03-23T11:04:00.000-07:00