Christopher Paul Brown

For me, a strong image offers a vision beyond the surface. It has a multi-dimensionality that offers depth and richness; such images can “tell” different stories to different people. With my work, these are never linear stories. Rather, they are subterranean and unconscious, like wordless shards that are the remains of dreams upon awakening.

I view myself primarily as an alchemist. The mundane surface of things interests me as fodder, as a means or lever, for revealing the deeper, inner energy of that which holds my emotional interest. Manipulation allows me ready access to the subject’s hidden aspects. The act is a partial disrobing; it is a process only the audience may complete.

I am a primitive hunter-gatherer rather than a modern urban agrarian. My process depends on engaging two polar opposites: intent and openness. The result is a channeling of energies beyond myself. I become a conductor of energy, like a wire conducting electricity or a lens conducting light. Mystics, and now even String Theory scientists, describe our world as having eleven dimensions. I feel that I explore some portion of these unnamed dimensions with my art.

In each of my photographs I have used, and deliberately misused, in-camera and/or ...

BA in Film from Columbia College, Chicago

2022

• One work in Sunspot Literary Journal, 2022 digital and print version
• Five works in Humana Obscura, Issue #04, Spring/Summer 2022
• One work in Landing Zone Magazine’s first issue
• One work in “Winter Magic” at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod
• “Light and Shadow” online exhibit with the Photography Center of Cape Cod and the Cape Cod Art Center

2021

• Praxis Gallery, After Dark Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
• One work in Pinky Thinker Press, Issue 4
• 1 of 6 winners of the London Photo Festival’s Nov. 2021 Nature Competition
• Two works in Glassworks Magazine’s Spring 2022 Issue
• Three works in CollexArt’s Color Sense 2021 Showcase
• One work in The Closed Eye Open, Issue V
• Three works in Hole in the Head Review, Vol. 2 No. 1
• Five works in Raw Art Review’s Summer/Fall 2021 Issue
• Silver Award Winner at the 2021 Muse Photography Awards
• Five works in East by Northeast Literary Magazine’s Issue #3
• One work in Apero Catalog, July 2021 Issue
• Six works in Punt Volat – Visual Media Summer Issue 4
• Five works in Raw Art Review, Winter/Spring Issue
• One work in Closed Eye Open Issue IV
• One work in Wild Roof Journal Issue #9
• Cover art for the Summer 2021 issue of Flumes Literary Journal
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