The Splat Series
On an early afternoon in the waning days of December, 2016,
I was driving my car on Almaden Expwy in South San Jose,
minding my own business. Suddenly, a Canadian goose, flying over head,
opened it’s bomb bay doors, and unleashed a very nasty dallop of
Canadian Goose poop. It splattered mightly on my windshield,
almost directly in my line of sight. My initial reaction, was, ‘ ahhhh
maaaaan !!! ’. But as I continued driving, I had the chance to study this
organic brand of abstract art further. The longer I had the chance to
study this splat, the more abstract and quite interesting, it became. Wing
shapes emerged from the farthest stretches of splatter, and the profile of
a person, with very spiky hair, started to take shape. So, when I returned
home, I started photographing this splat, and moving my car around, to
photograph this splat with different backgrounds and sky patterns in
lightness and cloud cover. In post production, I started playing with the
different files even further, to the point where I feel a very interesting
body of work resulted in this effort. My hope is that these images from
the ‘ Splat ’ series, become at least as iconic as Warhol‘s Campbell Soup
Cans. That, would be quite cool.
I was driving my car on Almaden Expwy in South San Jose,
minding my own business. Suddenly, a Canadian goose, flying over head,
opened it’s bomb bay doors, and unleashed a very nasty dallop of
Canadian Goose poop. It splattered mightly on my windshield,
almost directly in my line of sight. My initial reaction, was, ‘ ahhhh
maaaaan !!! ’. But as I continued driving, I had the chance to study this
organic brand of abstract art further. The longer I had the chance to
study this splat, the more abstract and quite interesting, it became. Wing
shapes emerged from the farthest stretches of splatter, and the profile of
a person, with very spiky hair, started to take shape. So, when I returned
home, I started photographing this splat, and moving my car around, to
photograph this splat with different backgrounds and sky patterns in
lightness and cloud cover. In post production, I started playing with the
different files even further, to the point where I feel a very interesting
body of work resulted in this effort. My hope is that these images from
the ‘ Splat ’ series, become at least as iconic as Warhol‘s Campbell Soup
Cans. That, would be quite cool.