E Bee Bantug : LightExpressionist
Should humanity refocus its attention (energy) less on modern science and the mundane; open up to greater awareness and discussion about the profoundly richer true nature of reality? My conceptual crossover lens-based abstract imagery vividly expresses unseen yet often powerfully felt vibrations in the Aether, the inescapable frequencies surfacing from deep within consciousness, both as singular soul and interacting with the universal collective, and All That is. Technically, to create my imagery, I deliberately use only the camera in my iPhone-of-the moment as one would a painter’s brush; consciously aiming not to capture preexisting objects, people, place per se; instead, I seek to explore, tease out and create unrepeatable ephemeral original imagery that break through surface 3D physical reality. Aesthetically, conceptually, I cast out realism totally from my thought and creative process; intuitively allowing my inner vision and moment’s consciousness to interact with natural light in liminal time-space, and so explore a quantum moment. Racing after movements of light, I literally ‘paint’ expressionist –often, surreal– imagery, unexpected vantage points and perspectives, merging/bridging the edges between painting and photography, both in character and impression. And, later, even more deliberately, I neither Photoshop or digitally manipulate nor add strokes nor filters to my images, post-creation. Each imagery is a singular, ephemeral, unrepeatable visual presence; a communion with the abundantly rich energetic multidimensional reality and vital essence rarely accessible, often hidden, vaguely perceptible, yet which at each moment infinitely surround our busy fast-paced lives.
Dreams of Transformation, Unmanipulated Lens-based, 107x143 cm, 2019
