David Carson
It’s so cool to think about how an artist can use his/her resources. There is so much available to the creative mind, with willingness, and the drive to seek opportunities for creativity. It’s been one of the hardest things to learn for me as an artist, but at the same time, it is so valueable in every sense of the concept. When I am able to realize that beauty can be found in just about anything, I can be receptive to see exactly what that might be. It’s so amazing what software can do these days, but at the same time, there is a beauty to something that is completely made by hand. When combining the two methods, it can become even more dynamic. A creative mind can find beauty in a stain on paper, or a dead, shriveled flower. As an artist, you quickly learn that something beautiful is not always pretty, but could be full of thought value rather than aesthetically pleasing value. It could be moving, rather than pleasing to the eye. This is what a creative mind sees. They see past what is beautiful by cultural standards, and they seek to highlight what is beautiful about that thing. David Carson does a great job of working with the little that he has. He uses fonts, and interesting scraps of things to show that you don’t need really great photographers and symmetric page layouts to have a successful composition.
