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24" x 43";
Archival Digital Print on Metallic Paper;
2025
All my photographic compositions are informed by my experience as a studio artist—a printmaker/draftsperson/painter—for 25 years before I picked up a camera in earnest. I am always photographing what is in front of me at any given moment or, in my case, series of moments. But actuality has no deep interest for me. I work to transform documentation into something other. I work to make a final image that exists as if it were assembled from remembered scenes; an image that presents as if it were composed from manifold bits and layers over many hours at an easel, perhaps. I push the boundaries of photography in my work, creating a photo-art that alludes to drawing and painting within, and layered onto, the photographic process.
Cardoon/Arcadia uses a combination of photography and drawing. Over the summer, I looked to my garden for solace, for beauty and joy. It was, before the self-closing-up, an Arcadian site of inspiration and pleasure, though for sure there is still pleasure to be had from the garden in its current, somewhat monochromatic state. I sat and drew using an iPad and then subsequently layered, digitally, drawn elements onto the multiple-exposed picture plane of an oversized Cardoon, a flower in the Artichoke family. I have also incorporated non-objective, almost stuttering marks onto the substrate image. This use of multiplicity in layering and capture essentially calls on the viewer to participate in the completion of the image by inviting one to slow down, to look closely, experience the layers, to see the photographic, and gestural “brush strokes”.
Website: www.tamahochbaum.com
IG: @hightree19
24" x 43";
Archival Digital Print on Metallic Paper;
2025
All my photographic compositions are informed by my experience as a studio artist—a printmaker/draftsperson/painter—for 25 years before I picked up a camera in earnest. I am always photographing what is in front of me at any given moment or, in my case, series of moments. But actuality has no deep interest for me. I work to transform documentation into something other. I work to make a final image that exists as if it were assembled from remembered scenes; an image that presents as if it were composed from manifold bits and layers over many hours at an easel, perhaps. I push the boundaries of photography in my work, creating a photo-art that alludes to drawing and painting within, and layered onto, the photographic process.
Cardoon/Arcadia uses a combination of photography and drawing. Over the summer, I looked to my garden for solace, for beauty and joy. It was, before the self-closing-up, an Arcadian site of inspiration and pleasure, though for sure there is still pleasure to be had from the garden in its current, somewhat monochromatic state. I sat and drew using an iPad and then subsequently layered, digitally, drawn elements onto the multiple-exposed picture plane of an oversized Cardoon, a flower in the Artichoke family. I have also incorporated non-objective, almost stuttering marks onto the substrate image. This use of multiplicity in layering and capture essentially calls on the viewer to participate in the completion of the image by inviting one to slow down, to look closely, experience the layers, to see the photographic, and gestural “brush strokes”.
Website: www.tamahochbaum.com
IG: @hightree19
