FROM CONCEPTION TO COMPLETION "Reconciliation" by Itzik Benshalom |
While I was shooting the wonderful sculptures of Itzik Benshalom that were on display for several months during 2006 at The Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ, USA, I wondered how artists got their ideas. Obviously the idea had to appear in the mind of the artist first. Sometimes visualized as a completed piece, but also sometimes the idea could appear as a nebulous form which the artist might then mull over and over as s/he started working on a model of the piece, or sketches for a painting. I wanted to see if I could express this idea photographically. I made a series of different exposures, with my camera on a tripod, of several of Benshalom's smaller sculptures. The series of five images above starts at left with the nebulous idea forming in Benshalom's mind. Each of the next three images represent various stages as I imagined him working the idea over in his mind and with smaller models in clay. The final image is of the finished piece. Click on the center of each image to see a larger version of that image. For a different version of this page, |
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