Brad Carlile - Passage Perceptions
Photography
Passage Perceptions explores experiences we have during journeys. Some images evoke once-in-a-lifetime trips to exotic locales, while others are depictions of more mundane journeys in everyday life.
In normal still photographs any change is rendered as a blur and detail is lost. These images capture that detail and boldly emphasize change in vivid colors. To maintain the essential ties to reality, all work is done in-camera and on film without digital manipulation. Stationary objects are captured in their true colors, while active elements are transformed into vibrant colors.
In Passage Perceptions the camera travels through a landscape or is mounted onto some mode of transportation. The images is created over the minutes or hours of the journey. In some of life's journeys we glide through our environment and in others we are jostled about. The vehicle often serves as a frame of reference.
I shoot with a medium-format camera and print on a large scale to enhance the impact of the colors. In addition, the intriguing details of the interactions between colors draw one into an intimate distance to explore. To me, it is important that the images in this series impact the viewer both from across the room as well as under very close inspection.
The Dalai Lama wrote that as your insight into the ultimate nature of reality is deepened you will perceive phenomena as illusion-like. I have created a world in my photographs to create both a feeling of wonder and to have the viewer participate in the exploration of these experiences.