Happy Independence Day!

I just love holidays! It is great to celebrate our countries Independence Day. I want to encourage everyone to have a relaxing enjoyable day thinking about all freedoms this country offers us. Despite all the political and economic hardships that are on our forefront right now we are truly a BLESSED COUNTRY! Focus on your blessings today and forget about high gas prices and our war in Iraq and CELEBRATE FREEDOM! HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY TO YOU ALL!

This is a photo from a class project I did while at Brooks Institute of Photography a few years ago. We all had an artist and had to try and copy his style through photography. I chose Jasper Johns. He was a contemporary style artist and did a lot of reliefs and paintings. A big portion of his work used the American Flag. I took a dead leaf from a palm tree and used the texture to paint on my own American Flag along with an old ratted cloth for the stars. The spattered crimson strips make me think of all the blood shed for our county but the overall composition says GLORY! Feel free to leave comments and let me know what you think.



I threw this one in just for fun. It is another photo from my Jasper Johns project. He dealt a lot with targets too. I had an old mattress with a hole in it and thought it would be a good starting point for a Jasper Johns style photo...