I think we all know how important it is at contemporary artists to always be searching for new inspiration in other's work. I did just that this past weekend while I was home in New York, excited to have been able to make time to go into the city to see some current museum shows. I went to the Whitney initially to see the Edward Hopper exhibit, but what I became even more struck by was the additional show at the museum of Paul Thek's work. He is an artist who I had never heard of previous to my visit, and I was really taken aback by the garish, gory, yet minimal elegance of his sculpture and installation pieces. Here are some images:

These pieces really got me thinking more about texture and the organic qualities of my own work and about how I could potentially experiment with adding sculptural elements in my own photography. It might be interesting to see how 3-D elements that I create on my own could translate into photographic images.

First and foremost, my next move is to talk to Paragon Printing to see if I can print on transparencies to then display against hand-made light boxes.