antique book

Jeremy Green “Deer Reader,” 8/10/16

A tinge of angst is good for the creative soul. Every 10th day something’s got to happen on this page, and it needs to play well with others. Sometimes an image made at an earlier time fits, but other times I feel the need to make something new. Making this image  started with my studying a deer skull in hard sunlight, moved on to watching a small herd of live deer saunter by outside, progressed to looking through various optical devices, and finally arrived at combining a magnifying glass with a pertinent illustration found in an antique book. The process rolled around, bumped into dead ends and self-criticism, and culminated in my making a new image. It was a two-handed affair, one hand holding the magnifying glass and the other holding the camera. The process in this case, as in many cases, was a juggling of objects and ideas.