Richard S. Wilkins Recent Photography

The most meaningful creative exercise I ever did was during a drawing class in a small New Jersey community college. We were told to look at our hand and draw it without looking at the paper. The exercise is known as Pure Contour Draw-ing and this exercise is designed to bypass-or perhaps shut

down-the analytical side of our brain and tap the subconscious connection between our eyes and our fingers. To this day, the resulting image I drew in that class is the purist artistic rendering I have ever made. The act of drawing, cre-ating art, and how I saw things

in the world, changed for me from that day forward. Everytime I get behind the camera, I am pursuing that mysterious connection, the magical leap the mind can make over logic and reason into a world of imagery usually reserved for dreams.

Artist Statement

I’m constantly inspired by movies. Especially the mov-ies of filmmakers like David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, and Stanley Kubrick. Each of them shoots in a different way with their cameras but they all create beautiful images, images that are like paintings.I enjoy the things around us that might be considered un-usual, or quirky. In my work, I look for new connections between things that typically aren’t thought of as things that go together - such as ball gowns and skateboards. I am moti-vated by opportunities to create unusual connections, to bend the rules, to occaisionally fold Convention up like a paper airplane and let it sail into the wind.

Regardless of the subject matter, I try to remain aware of shape, color, line, balance, and compo-sitional dynamics while trying to capture, or create, some emotion, some moment that speaks to me on a level below the surface.

Richard S. Wilkins302 5th Ave., Apt12Asbury Park, NJ 07712, USA

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