Honorable Mention
The Spirits of Route 66, No. 9
DESCRIPTION
My main goal for taking macro/close-up photographs of abandoned antique motor vehicles that are decaying away along the Historic U.S. Route 66 is: How do I make the old, ugly, and the discarded look beautiful, strong, and colorful again? And why do I see faces everywhere I look? Who is always watching me? Are they spirits or other worldly beings like the supernatural? Or did the people who originally make these antique motor vehicles (like the ones who bent the metal to create the automobile to the ones who actually had to paint it), plus, the universe's energy source called sand, wind, and rain (that has been hitting this motor vehicle for five to ten decades straight) are transferring all their different energy sources into one another and somehow someway are forming into a brand new source of energy / life and that is what we see instead? And how do I properly capture these *new beings* in their true essence, full of color & full of life? AUTHOR
I went from Hollywood Villain to International Winning Abstract PhotographerAlways attracted to the darker side of life, I quickly found my passion for playing the antagonist and villain. I have performed in over 45 indie feature films, including Hick, starring Oscar Winner Eddie Redmayne. I also worked on two art exhibition films by world-renowned contemporary artist Paul McCarthy, CSSC and DADDA, funded by Hauser & Wirth.
I then picked up the camera to invent a new style of conceptual abstract photography. This style explores the fine line between the life and death of objects, then death and decay, and now, a rebirth (aka spirits or otherworldly beings like the supernatural). I specialize in creating photographic abstracts from decaying man-made objects and have won fifteen awards from the top photography contests in the world for these artworks.
My mission is to reveal to the world that even in death and decay, there is still beauty and a new source of energy or life that wants to be born into this world, just in another way. We just need to look at it from a different light, a different perspective – just like how a caterpillar dramatically transforms into a butterfly!
I also give my limited-edition photographs another kind of rebirth by printing them on materials similar to their original forms. My close-up photographs of metal decay are printed on archival metal, while my close-up photographs of decaying plastic are printed on archival acrylic, which is also plastic. This approach ensures that my conceptual abstract photographs become more lifelike than ever before, making them resemble the actual objects that I photographed.
Contact information: https://www.davevescio.com
