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Leonardo Da Vinci believed the artist’s vision must maintain two responsibilities: accurately representing the physical nature of reality, while upholding the spiritual element within all living things. He was successful in upholding and rendering this spiritual element through close observation, experimentation, and documentation . Leonardo da Vinci sketched often with the intent to capture emotion, reflect on natural phenomena, and display an acute interest in his surroundings. An innate attribute to Leonardo's character was his conscious effort to capture the spiritual and physical duality of the subject.
The practice of photography has been proven to capture our immediate reality. However, I wanted my observation and documentation to take full form with experimentation. With knowledge of Leonardo’s practice, I have applied his micro-macro outlook to further consider my physical world as entwined as he once did. By layering images and text, I hoped to create a full multi-dimensional quality of each moment’s movements, essence and ultimately, meaning. By relating the images to selected quotes by Leonardo da Vinci on form, light, movement, essence and relativity, I strived to retain the physical, lively element within these stagnant, captured moments. And, transform my reality as Leonardo once did, by interconnecting all physical attributes of our world within a metaphysical realm of human expression.
His studies are the true essence of the art of science, and the science of art, two disciplines now considered disjointed in the context of our modern society. However, by aligning with Leonardo’s belief of imagery or text alone leave the subject incomplete, my expressive studies feature both: Wholly capturing our present moment by giving it a relationship to the past, and enough animation for a possible future.