fotoplay: end of the horizon

The Fotoplay Invitational, What’s On the Horizon?, is now complete. Nine unique works were created in response to my Fotoplay page:

The works were created with a wide variety of materials and methods:

• tissue and contact papers to make bright stained glass windows

• an exacto knife and colored paper to make clever lift-the-flap windows

• press type to design a text based, philosophical piece

• fabric, cardboard, and crayons to construct a whimsical table-top theater

• colored paper to make an impassioned weaving

• an exacto knife and a light table to create a sublime illuminated piece

• the digital darkroom to make a series of photographs of abandon

• a tour-de-force altarpiece of many madonnas

As with the December Fotoplay work, it was exciting for me to receive these thoughtfully created pieces in response to my prompt. And I learned a lot about the things that interest me most: art, artists, creative process, how one’s work can be guided by one’s compulsions, fears and fascinations…

Many thanks to the artists. Perhaps we will reconvene here in This Playground for another Invitational some time in the future…