Prismatic Abstraction

I hadn’t been to Yellowstone in over 10 years and quite possibly longer than that to Grand Prismatic Spring. But surely the photographer trail to the look out above the spring would still be there?  Yep, it was, and thanks again to Instagram so were all the people.

Even still, I had already had plenty of Prismatic images, and the poor spring had been photographed to death by everyone and everything (airplanes included). So how to make it new again? Pay attention as this is where the art comes in. It seems to me that somewhere in these ramblings I spoke about abstraction art and the common response from people being, “I could’a splattered paint on a canvas!” To which I always reply, “Yeah but you didn’t, Jackson Pollock did.”

How could I transform the spring into the same idea? As photography becomes easier and easier (Fuck you Iphone, and AI) it seems that art really only becomes art, when it’s presented as such.  I mean otherwise Pollock’s paintings really are just the floor of your local Sherwin Williams. It wasn’t until they were hung in the MET that they became another form of expression. Maybe I can take a pointer from Mexico and Italy. Ive been into triptychs lately and maybe one day people will look upon these and say, “What is that?”