{"id":918,"date":"2010-03-25T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakcreekprintworks.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2011-09-12T17:35:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:35:42","slug":"featured-artist-spring-2010-klaus-lange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oakcreekprintworks.com\/blog\/photography\/featured-artist-spring-2010-klaus-lange\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Artist – Spring 2010: Klaus Lange"},"content":{"rendered":"

SECRETS OF OCEAN LINERS<\/p>\n

Impermanent Art \u2014 Surprising Beauty<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My abstract art photographs are a collection<\/a> of close-up images \u00a0of the worn and \"\"<\/a>rusting paint on ships’ hulls. \u00a0With my camera on the high seas I capture fascinating patterns and characters from weathered and repainted ship’s steel. I am a lifelong self-trained artist, and currently give my creativity free reign as a seaman on the San Francisco pilot boat, stationed 12 miles outside the Golden Gate. \u00a0While pilots go up and down the Jacob’s ladders in near hourly intervals, I stand camera-ready on deck of the pilot boat, down near the waterline, where the best motifs for my fleeting photography offer themselves so wonderfully. Here\u00a0for mere moments I find myself presented with surprising views of patterns of worn paint \u2014 a rare perspective that most people are never privy to.<\/p>\n

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These picturesque details, which may have traveled for years across untold oceans, so absolutely undiscovered and unsung, are always special to me. \u00a0I might snap a photograph of a particular pattern that will change again in the next port with a new scrape or a tire mark. The art is ever evolving. I am simply capturing it as it transforms. From my close-up perspective these hulls are like gigantic expressionistic paintings filled with images of both stress and beauty. \u00a0Later, when I see the photographs in my digital darkroom, I discover apparent humans, fish and animals, landscapes and street scenes \u2014 or as I think of it \u2014 fascinating sea stories told by the ships themselves. \u00a0Deeper, artistic interpretation of my work I prefer to leave to the studied observer, since it seems that everybody sees something different in the abstract images. \u00a0As an artist I find sheer joy in discovering hidden meanings and messages, and I marvel at the artistic power of an ever-moving force \u2014 the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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