Michael Dickins

“When George Eastman created the Kodak Camera in 1888, he made a cumbersome and complicated process easy to use and accessible to nearly everyone …”

…Since then, the world has been oversaturated with trillions of images. photographs have become highly accessible and highly expendable. Within the age of digital media, when the discarding of an image is as simple as a push of a button, what makes one image more expend- able than another? By taking images of everyday occurrences and recreating them in a painterly, non-photographic manner, I am not only putting focus on the snapshot and that of the “everyday” image, I am also forcing the viewer to question their importance.

“Bullet with Butterfly Wings” woodblock ink, graphite, charcoal, oil pastel on wood panel 24 ̋ x 24