Digital'ism ... it's here. The revolution is now, hail the digital canvas, hail digital art. Hooray, what an evolution! Pushing, shoving, stirring, mixing, painting pixels in or out of the canvas, molding my imprisoned moment past reality all the way to perception. In the purely organic era of film we push/pulled the processing, heated it, cooled it, flashed it with light. We bleached the prints, halted highlights with fingers dipped in fixer; coaxed the shadows beneath the chemical...
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Digital'ism ... it's here. The revolution is now, hail the digital canvas, hail digital art. Hooray, what an evolution! Pushing, shoving, stirring, mixing, painting pixels in or out of the canvas, molding my imprisoned moment past reality all the way to perception. In the purely organic era of film we push/pulled the processing, heated it, cooled it, flashed it with light. We bleached the prints, halted highlights with fingers dipped in fixer; coaxed the shadows beneath the chemical covered papers with the warmth of finger tips in dimly lit darkroom trays. Hell, I've set fire to portions of transparencies in the urge to bend the silvered emulsion to my intentions. And now ... there's digital! Hooray yet again, we're free. At last ... at long last ... Wow.
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