When I first saw artist Erin O'Keefe's work, I tried to figure out what she could have possibly used as materials. I thought these works were collage and paint on marble and wood sculpture. Complicated, right? Well, it's even more layered than that! These constructions are actually COMPLETELY flat. They are all made purely from collaged photographs. O'Keefe's background in architecture clearly shows in these tricky, trompe l'oeil constructions.
"As a photographer, I am interested in the layer of distortion and misapprehension introduced by the camera as it translates three dimensional form and space into two dimensional image."
I love this quote from O'Keefe discussing what the photographic lens is capable of doing to an image. Seeing any image through a camera definitely changes how we see things, but seeing it through a computer screen changes it even more. O'Keefe is based in New York City and New Brunswick, Canada. If you live in either of these areas, hopefully you can experience her work in person and see these forced perspectives and optics more clearly!
"As a photographer, I am interested in the layer of distortion and misapprehension introduced by the camera as it translates three dimensional form and space into two dimensional image."
I love this quote from O'Keefe discussing what the photographic lens is capable of doing to an image. Seeing any image through a camera definitely changes how we see things, but seeing it through a computer screen changes it even more. O'Keefe is based in New York City and New Brunswick, Canada. If you live in either of these areas, hopefully you can experience her work in person and see these forced perspectives and optics more clearly!