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BIFA 2023

Transformation

  • Photographer
    Karen Divine

Mindless creativity is the practice of making art from one’s spirit. It requires the artist to remain in a stream of creative consciousness, or you may also call it, no mind. I begin the piece with color and forms only from my photos and then allow the process of choosing spontaneously guide each next step. From here my awareness is on balance, both in color and form as the image moves forward. Allowing an image to evolve intuitively is my goal as well as using the iChing to assist me in discovering the meaning. These are all my photos.

The world is seen in layers, stacking colors and ideas, shapes and patterns onto each other as if one were walking through their day with blurred vision, not taking in specifics but piecing together various parts and overlapping them, sensing what’s all around us that we sometimes miss when caught in our thoughts. What develops is another realm of existence expressed through tonality, textures and sounds. My composite images attempt to unveil the interaction we have with all things. It’s photography that represents my personal experience of the world. They are stories of multiple and perso