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 Peter Howells. Self-portrait in landscape with flowers, 2000. |
 ach layer in the picture plane has personal symbolic meaning. Images of landscapes and nature represent the real world, the timeless world that exists with or without our involvement. While we enter the world in an arbitrary place and time, that placement profoundly affects our life's experience. The human body represents the interface between our selves, our "souls," and the world. Our bodies, while partially under our control, are also slaves to the whims of sexual desire, hunger, age and death. The final layer in my images--the patterns, textures, floating objects--represents perception, human-imposed structure, how we define order out of chaos, our attempt to shape our lives with rules, and our vain efforts to know the unknowable. The image on the right is an installation view of one of the images. Because of the backlighting, they were difficult to photograph. The rest of the images in this sequence are taken from the original digital photo collages. |
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© 2000 Peter Howells & Vince Constabileo |
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