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Monday, August 20, 2012

Sculpture and Mark Tipple

Mark Tipple's beautiful photographs are of the ocean, but they're about Eros and Thanatos.
That's Beauty and Death, the quick line between summer play and survival.
Glass Slide #003 by Mark Tipple ©2012  Used with permission of the artist.
That's because Mark shoots the action beneath the waves on the Underwater Project. 

Dark Paradise by Mark Tipple ©2012  Used with permission of the artist.
The Underwater Project  captures the turbulence patterns of waves and swimmers tumbling within them.
Summer Storm by Mark Tipple ©2012  Used with permission of the artist.
Tipple sees his ocean photography as a call to arms, a merging of humanitarian concerns with the beauty of nature. “I realized that humanitarian concerns can’t be divorced from environmental ones – they’re one and the same.”

Click on the links to learn more about Mark Tipple's work or to purchase photos.
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My sculpture series, the Nature of Water, is very different from Mark's photography. It is so good to find another artist committed to both the beauty of water and the critical for awareness of global water issues.  His work gives me a larger vision of what I want to accomplish with my new work.

1 comment:

Susan Gallacher-Turner said...

Amazing photographs!

Looking forward to seeing how your new work progresses!