As a Poet
and visual artist, Albert Flynn DeSilver explores the natural and
written language of movement through the graphic cycles of land
and sea. By scrawling messages on slides and drawing on beaches
DeSilver seems to suggest that there is little difference between
these markings.
In a series
of photographs entitled, "One Wave Walking to Four Phases of
the Moon", the artist documents the rise and fall of the tide
along a beach in Point Reyes, California. Long wiggly lines scraped
into the sand mark the event. Another piece, the cleverly titled
"Two Foot Water Draw", captures the alluvial patterns
left in the sand as ocean waves wash around the artist's feet.
At a time when
people demand ever fancier special effects from block-buster movies
and aesthetics seems to be something people feel driven to purchase,
Albert DeSilver's artwork calls attention to the simple elegance
and genius of the natural world if we only took time to look. His
photographs are driven by a desire to tread lightly and to see how
things are "drawn organically in the landscape".
DeSilver's work
is guided by an important philosophy which asks, "how can I
collaborate with/participate in, these drawings rather than impose
my human self upon them."
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