NIGHTSCAPES

Great Tree 1, 2006

THE ARTIST'S STATEMENT

26 April 2006 by Gerry Joe Weise

From the dense and the dark passages found in nocturnal landscapes, one is in waiting. Waiting for the next consequence to happen. Hearing all silence, deafened by the vast spaces becoming claustrophobic, we shall not be the same again. Art has a very long history of evening, nightly, and after dusk works. Creating a mood and pleasure in representing obscurities, and awkward sentiments. These are precisely those moments I have learned to cherish from Prehistoric to Ancient to Modern to Contemporary Artwork. The "Nightscapes" theme I feel, has to have panoramic measurements, to create tension against claustophobia : a sort of resting against restlessness. Therfore the contradiction is exposed, and we can savor the delicate balance between a panorama wide-open and a small stuffy space. Air has definately color here ! The "Nightscapes" series use a combination of techniques I used for the "New-Nature" photographs and the "New-Realities" collages, and in doing so, hoping to create nocturnal moods unexploited in the color schemes I used beforehand.

RIVETING NIGHTSCAPES

A Panorama Of Nightly Delights

by Jan Rubin

A native of Sydney, Gerry Joe Weise moved to Europe in 1980, at the age of 20. In the late 80s, through his friendship with Jean-Marie LeSidaner (international French poet), he was invited to poet meetings, happenings, performances, and the Rimbaud Poetry Festival in France.

His poetic "Nightscapes" taken from the "New-Nature / New-Realities", are a new private cosmos that opens up before us in a view, a panorama of nightly delights, under pressure from mortal life on a gravity-bound planet; but still offers an escape. Gerry Joe Weise is dedicated to close observation of nature and detail. He revisits themes such as mountains, plains, trees, water and skies. Weise scans photographic collages of landscape images and digitally manipulates them on his computer.

These dark saturated color photos are riveting and breathtaking.

The Ditch, 2006

Wishbone Tree, 2006

Rock Tree, 2006

Center Tree, 2006

Coast Trees, 2006

Bush Gums, 2006

Beach Plates, 2006

Coastal Vegetation, 2006

Billabong, 2006

Sideways Mountains, 2006

Mineral Water, 2006

Devil's Evening, 2006

Devil's Night, 2006

Blue Rock, 2006

Ocean View, 2006

The Field, 2006

Tree Passage, 2006

Great Tree 2, 2006

Blue Horizon, 2006

Red Gum, 2006

Midforest Lake, 2006

Eyescape, 2006

Ravine, 2006

Night Forest, 2006

Undergrowth, 2006

Land Mass, 2006

Sea Obscurity, 2006

NIGHTSCAPES french / francais

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