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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Her ancestors were the original inhabitants of this island, the Taino. When her father died, she had to quit her schooling in the third grade to work on the coffee plantation where her family were sharecroppers. Now at the age of 85, after a life of hard work, she has a nice home on three acres in the hills above Lares, Puerto Rico. Her generosity is like most of the people that I have been fortunate to know who have a close connection to nature. You can never be fed enough, have enough coffee or sleep well enough. I spent the morning with her digging for roots called Yame that she finds quickly and easily. What caught my eye was how she had absolutely no hesitation to dig with her hands. In this particular photo, I see her as the human connection to the Earth, equally important as the soil and roots. In her arm and hand, I see roots and a strong trunk, giving and taking like the plants that she loves. Amongst her farm land, her age disappears and you see her eyes fire up, her energy bounces and she becomes childlike- searching, playing, digging.
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Giclee on Canvas
Size:
21 W x 14 H x 1.25 D in
Size with Frame:
22.75 W x 15.75 H x 1.25 D in
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White
Canvas Wrap:
Black Canvas
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Yes
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Ships in a Box
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Mark Imhoof
United States
"At the end of life, we are left with these artworks as valuable memories and often they are passed onto the next generations. They take on a life past our own." Mark Imhoof Photography and Applied Arts Flagler Beach, Florida - Photographer for travel, street, GoPro action sports, event and portrait photography using Fujifilm X-T2, GoPro Hero 7 Black, Fujifilm XP -90, Motorola Moto e cameras. - Personal History and Legacy Interviewer - Surfboard Designer and Shaper I admire applied art that serves both an aesthetic as well as a practically useful purpose, which is why I am attracted to photography, creating surfboards by hand and interviewing people. The reason that I create in these three distinct ways is that each allows me a chance to give myself and others something emotional and uniquely useful, a blink in time that will never occur again in exactly the same way. At the end of life, we are left with these artworks as valuable memories and often they are passed onto the next generations. They take on a life past our own. A camera is a unique machine that allows a person to capture photographic moments, very special brief windows in time of a kind of enlightened perception. This little time/light machine forces the photographer to live in the very moment. This is rare for the human mind, a mind always either planning, plotting or thinking of past or future. Because taking pictures is capturing time, it can be as equally frustrating as well as rewarding. Those moments that I miss are upsetting to the point of an obsession to look at the world around me as photographs and attempt to catch as many of those unique moments as I can that are worth pushing the shutter. I am especially attracted to photographing colorful people, very old trees, and Americana. Three of my favorite artists are Mark Cohen for his daring street photography, Dennis Stock is a fantastic travel photographer and Eugene Richards for his documentary work. I am self taught and spend hours either watching video, listening to or reading from the experts. I have studied John Hedgecoe’s course “Complete Photography” and MIT Professor Bill Cohen’s course “Documentary Photography and Photojournalism."
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