MORE ON "GORP"

My dictionary defines gorp as “a mixture of nuts, dried fruit, seeds or the like eaten as a high-energy snack”. Perhaps no one knows what it is for sure but it looks good.

 I consider my small color images to be my “gorp”. They are little bits of things that make the whole. We often run across a big pile of junk (gorp). The challenge is to capture an image that satisfies what we might consider to be the rules of making fine art. To simply photograph the whole pile would render an image of no significant meaning or interest…it is simply a pile of junk to the viewer. Anyone can make such a photo. As we get closer and more intimate with the pile we begin to see little tid-bits of the whole. We begin to isolate important little units of information that we can somehow capture and design prints that are truly unique to our individual vision.

I would like to invite you to post some comments and/or images that you might consider to be your “gorp”.