Friday, April 27, 2012

Project 5

For this project, to "Find Your Muse," I had a surprisingly amount of difficult finding inspiration. However, once I came across some photos of Romanian-native Mihai Mangiulea, I knew I finally find my inspiration.  His artist statement for his collection is:

It is difficult for me to say how much outside influence is in my work and why I am photographing this space or that one; it's maybe easier to say what is coming from inside. 

I am searching to encounter an interior image that seems to me being anticipated or approximated by reality, reality that acts like a medium. I feel that the way to this image is there, in front of me, like a dissimulated presence.

My work on a photograph ends only when I recognize the image that seemed, in the beginning, to be obscured by the real. It is strange to recognize something that hasn't been seen yet; in fact, there is a moment when my work ends because the image has become itself, equal to what I feel I must see. It is the certitude that that image can't be otherwise.

Two of his works that stood out to me are:

        
I find his abstract atmospheric aesthetic very appealing, and was immediately drawn to them.