Marques Vickers

The Artistic Properties of Reflective Glass (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The Artistic Properties of Reflective" is California artist Marques Vickers photographic edition of over 105+ captured images of inverted and reflective objects mirrored by glass. The diverse photo sequence was captured through a variety of windows from the port district of Tacoma, Washington.

When lightning strikes sand, the optical dispersal of imagery mirrors and scatters coherent composition. The alchemy involved in forming glass creates curtains of fluid and reflective waveforms.

This distortion reassembles appearance into fresh reconstructions. Reality is transposed into a hallucination of disintegrating elements, elevating its innate simplicity into multi-dimensional appearance.

This deconstruction process enables a viewer to visualize objects into unimaginable patterns. We are confronted with a vision that challenges our neatly and concisely constructed assemblages. We are compelled to acknowledge the inner layers of composition superficially invisible to the eye. We break imagery into constructive granulated sands that ultimately disjointed unions.

Alchemy in its purest form is the ability to transmute base metals into noble and precious derivatives such as gold. The practice of western alchemy dates back to ancient Egypt with the city of Alexandria as its capital. Islam and Asian based religions embraced the shadowy art from their earliest inception.

This ancient transformation of base metals symbolically assumed a spiritual dimension as an elixir of life. In the context of glass reflection, linear shapes are restructured into abstractions and curvatures. Objects are liberated from their fixed matter and reshaped into fluid forms lacking edge and definition.

The decline of alchemy as an established practice was facilitated in the early eighteen century by the rise and acceptance of modern scientific methodology. Ancient spirituality and mysticism were displaced by experimentation and quantitative comparison. Chemistry universally replaced the role of alchemy.

There remains a space for interpretive alchemy when one views the unlocked reflections stimulated by glass. Restructuring matter becomes as mystical as reconstructing sand particles into sheets of solid matter.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Marques Vickers
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005817114
• Artikelnr.: 69986854

Autorenporträt

Visual Artist, Writer and Photographer Marques Vickers is a California native presently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, Washington regions.

He was born in 1957 and raised in Vallejo, California. He is a 1979 Business Administration graduate from Azusa Pacific University in the Los Angeles area. Following graduation, he became the Public Relations and ultimately Executive Director of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce between 1979-84. He subsequently became the Vice President of Sales for AsTRA Tours and Travel in Westwood between 1984-86.

Following a one-year residence in Dijon, France where he studied at the University of Bourgogne, he began Marquis Enterprises in 1987. His company operations have included sports apparel exporting, travel and tour operations, wine brokering, publishing, rare book and collectibles reselling. He has established numerous e-commerce, barter exchange and art websites including MarquesV.com, ArtsInAmerica.com, InsiderSeriesBooks.com, DiscountVintages.com and WineScalper.com.

Between 2005-2009, he relocated to the Languedoc region of southern France. He concentrated on his painting and sculptural work while restoring two 19th century stone village residences. His figurative painting, photography and sculptural works have been sold and exhibited internationally since 1986. He re-established his Pacific Coast residence in 2009 and has focused his creative productivity on writing and photography.

His published works span a diverse variety of subjects including true crime, international travel, California wines, architecture, history, Southern France, Pacific Coast attractions, fiction, auctions, fine art marketing, poetry, fiction and photojournalism.

He has two daughters, Charline and Caroline who presently reside in Europe.