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According to the American Heritage Dictionary, Transposition is the act or instance of transposing. ...to alter in form or nature; transform.
Family Snapshot 4'- 0" x 5'- 7" 2006-07
When i started this piece ( Family Snapshot ), i had a completely different concept in mind, this piece took on a life of its own however and soon transposed my 'formal triptych' ( 2 verticals over a horizontal ) , into the single image composite you see before you. Sometimes the elements of an image dictate their own arrangement and all you can do is listen.
Transposition 2 ( top of page ) This work had it's birth based on a small painting by Stuart Davis called "Report from Rockport" a 24 x 30 inch canvas he did in 1940. If you look at it, you will notice the background interplay of the 'garage' with the mainly abstract foreground of the graphic elements'. It's that interplay i hope i brought to my piece, plus Stuarts since of high keyed color. ...thank you mr. Davis. A simple threme to hang a show on...or so i throught when the idea of this show was put to me...
In 2004, i started doing my first digital panoramas with a 4 megapixel camera from Canon... the model G2. At that time my main concern was to capture the essence of the scene. Between then and through 2005 i added to my knowledge and upgraded my equipment to the point of being able to master the parameters of doing larger scale panoramas while still using, that relatively inexpensive, 'point and shoot' digital camera. All the work i shot in 2006, had two things in common, "focus focus focus" and scale, with the number of images in any one piece averaging over 250 to 300 ... with the final image being 2 feet high and between 6 to 10 feet long. In 2007, while the idea of "focus" was still a key point in the work, i started to think in terms of abstracting the two dimensional surface with regard to it's three dimensional illusion. Although the images are photographic, my intent is that of a painter.
copyright charlesthomas 2008
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