For this week’s artist I’d like to look at Patrick Rochon. Rochon is a photographer and is often known as the master of light painting. For those who don’t know: light painting is a photography technique where you take a long exposure in pitch darkness and then “draw” with a light source. I decided to look. at this artist because nobody’s put up any photographers yet and this photographer’s work definitely relates to the class.
Rochon began light painting in Montreal, 1992, and five years later he made the decision to dedicate his life to mastering the practice. He’s very accomplished now and his work has been published several times. He describes his practice in his bio as the following: “As a light painter, I work in the dark. Intuition and imagination are my main senses. By practicing this art passionately, I’ve come to hear the inner self whisper hints and guides me towards new ideas and insights.” Even though his work requires him to largely use his intuition, I think that’s super inspiring and that we should all trying relying on our intuition while making a piece and see how it turns out (just for fun not for class:)
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