Dainty Volatile Bloom Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

As an only child, Mark Lenn Johnson, born and still residing in Lexington, Kentucky, passed away his solitary childhood hours captivated within the colorful pages of comic books. Unbeknownst to him then, that early fascination with color provided him with the ground work for his artistic inspiration later in life. He learned several artistic processes – hand stringing store bought beads into bracelets, creating his own beads out of polymer clay, glass bead making and then working with hot and warm glass - all the while maintaining his obsession with color. Considering himself to be a glass artist first and foremost, his latest artistic undertaking, which came about as a result of his glass studio flooding and being out of commission for a short time, is a body of work that he refers to as the Colorswims Creative Photography Series. In the series, capitalizing on his new love of photography, he uses milk as his canvas to which he then adds color pigments to and then manipulates with various tools (paintbrushes, etc.) and techniques which he then photographs.