Christopher J Wesley | Fine Art and Fiction Artist
Chris Wesley is an award winning author, fine art photographer, musician, music producer and poet.
I want Expressionist Photography to become a movement of self-expression that’s accessible to everyone.
We all carry an art studio in our pockets and purses, and the truth is talent and creativity are boxes that we don’t have to self-identify with to take great photos. There are simple rules we can all follow and the first is that we all feel, therefore anything we make that expresses that feeling is valid.
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I speak about my journey and my experience in the Leadership Pasadena course.
Time Lapse Video Never Alone from Chris Wesley on Vimeo.
For me, it’s important to begin my process in the real world before letting my imagination re-stylize the world. While I call the medium Expressionist Photography, I call the actual process Romanticizing the photograph.
While I don’t condone abuse, I do believe that if you’re subjected to it, you need to first remove yourself from the situation and from there, find the benefits from what you’ve endured.
I know this sounds crazy, but humor me for now and consider some of the ways I’ve re-framed some of my own traumatic experiences.
Perhaps you can relate to a few of them and hopefully, you’ll be able to re-frame some of them yourself. [Read more…]
Yesterday, I saw an old friend at work who hadn’t seen me, so I called her name. When she didn’t turn around, I called her name again and again and again, until I got her attention.
When she finally did acknowledge my presence, naturally I asked her, “What the hell?”
Well it turned out that she was having a horrible day. The reason she didn’t hear me was because she was so focused on how crappy her day was going and how badly she needed to ‘take a walk’ away from her desk.