My Space/Your Space” – an exhibition of our personal spaces

"Dance of the Studio Pixies", digital art photograph


"Dance of the Studio Pixies" was my solution to the call made by Craig Roland on the social network, Art Education 2.0. He said to all of the members, "In an effort to tap the creativity of this growing global collective, I’d like to propose a collaborative photographic project I’ve titled “My Space/Your Space” that we can all easily participate in and that will help us to get to know each other better". The idea was simple—Show where we worked, taught, played, or made art.

The inspiration for this image came at midnight, after spending hours sorting art materials, tools, paintings and paper in my studio, I grabbed my camera and headed out into the cool night for a much needed break. This late night housekeeping came about because I am moving north to teach art, and wander the rural countryside of the Poconos looking for interesting places to photograph or paint.

From a technical standpoint, I took this photograph from the outside looking in, standing about 20 feet away. I knew wouldn't be able hold my digital camera steady enough and the image would be out of focus, but I felt that might add to my concept of an artist in transition, the art spirit flying to a new and exciting place. After importing the photo, I used the elementary paint program to spray paint pixels in a swarm like fashion, the rest of the tweaking and color correction was done in Photoshop.

This had been a special space for me and this image is homage to the wonderful ideas that swirled around and sometimes landed to form art.