Agowatiha Sagwu is
the photography and artwork of
Adrian Penn...
Adrian plays
with the musical group
bLIND iNFANCY/deathstar flux
and is also the founder of
Introvert Creative Group.
He has had a few photography shows
in recent years in the NC area, and participated
in a handful of collaborative exhibits.
His photography, as well as paintings,
will be part of another show
in September 2006...
Quatre Artist Collective's
art show coming up in Greensboro, NC
(more details coming).
Along with being part of
Quatre Artist Collective
He feels his meaning in life is lost without
without his writing, painting, music
and photographs... that all are required
for him to fully be who he is, and he
aspires to become better at each...
and hopes you find as much meaning and
in them and in life....
This is just a few of his most recent photographs that have not been shown yet. Others that have been shown will be posted soon..
Prints of all his work are available for purchase.
We hope you like them, and thank you for looking
.....Introvert Creative Group
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Q: What do you think of your most recent photos?
Adrian: They are an expression of my own growing process. They aren't my best work in some ways, but they are the newest images I've been working with from the digital camera. I'm still getting used to working with digital so I'm sort of in an in-between stage. The ones that were in some shows a few years ago were done on a non-digital camera.... but that all gets very costly, and I'm still a starving artist so there are many benefits to going digital! I think manipulation of the original image is becoming cliche.... which is a slight dislike I feel for some of these that are altered.... but it is something I did before I ever started working with digital images 5, 6 years ago, so I somehow feel justified to do so, like if one is.. or was punk before it became mainstream pop punk like today.
The thing I do like about manipulating an original image is it forces the veiwer to see them in a new way, to think over what it is they are seeing... re-consider it instead of just saying "oh it's a glass or an atlas" ...the pollution series I did a few years ago was done in such a way... I had two versions of this series one where you could tell what the objects were easily by their contrasting colors and the fact of "Oh there's a PEPSI can in a creek" and then an alternate series where the colors were all different and you were like "What's that? where is it at?"
Sometimes it can go beyond that, creating a new situation where they do not even consider what the original subject may be.... the manipulation of the image can take the veiwer so completely away from what the original subject was in reality that they just take in the visual imformation aesthically."
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