ANICK MOREL
Anick Morel calls herself a photographer. She could have said painter, or sculptor or visitor from another galaxy. One where states between liquid and gas, inanimate and living, even matter and thought, are all commonplace. In the hands of a master there is no medium; there is no context, the art is pure and essential-you look upon it.
Morels images are so expertly crafted that subject, substance and dimension may remain ambiguous yet their profound beauty detours the analytical impulse by stunning the senses. Their stark, bold clarity precludes concerns as to what, where or how and replaces them with a simple "wow".
As unfamiliar visual stimuli often will her work evokes a wide range of emotions in a short space of time. Don't try to sort them out. Just succumb to the power of Anick Morel's vision. Experience aleatoric art at its finest and be at peace with not knowing. The best things in life are often a mystery.
I began my journey into abstract art as soon as I began my art degrees. After many years working in the corporate world where I didn't have time and opportunities to express myself artistically, I rediscovered painting, more specifically the abstract. Autodidact and curious, my researches brought me to try photography abstract techniques. After reading an article about photographing a burning light bulb, I had to try it and make this technique my own. It was a revelation. I couldn't get enough. It was the beginning of my abstract photography. Soon after that, I stopped painting abstract altogether and and devoted my time to photography. Even though my work involves the dynamic of smokes, bubbles and fluids, it doesn't stop there. I'm always on the look out for new experiments to do, things to try, subjects to develop. I get inspired by other abstract photographers, chemistry experiments and and anything connected to science. Science is a great source of inspiration. To my eyes, science and art are not so different. In fact, they are more similar then you might think. http://www.amp.c.la/