Acrylic painting, 10"x7" of old Brownie Reflex camera

Acrylic painting, 7"x7" of Remington Meter Matic 8mm Home Movie Camera

Acrylic painting, 7"x7" of Brownie Target Camera

As an artist it’s my job to make images. I love the process. I’m fascinated by how we see and how what we see affects us. I enjoy photography as one of the ways to make images. But, being the visual person I am, I not only like taking and looking at photographs, I enjoy the machines that take the pictures. Cameras are extensions our eyes, a tool we use to see. I collect old cameras because they remind me that it’s always been important for people to make images.

I occurred to me: What if I made a painting of a camera? What if I made a painting of a camera that was looking back out at me? Have you ever been in a hall of mirrors or pointed a video camera at the TV to which it’s hooked up? So I made an image of an image-making machine that could make an image of me. Silly? Sure. But fun!

These little acrylic paintings are  on cut out Masonite and plywood. The images are about the size of the real cameras. The backgrounds are 6”x6” pieces of ½” plywood, painted with layers of acrylic and then “roughed up” to show something of the underlying colors.