During the spring break we were given the task of searching for an artist that we admire or relate to. Going through the Art21 website, I came across Lucas Blalock’s photography. Blalocks art making process is quite interesting as he deals with still lifes and uses a large format camera and digital manipulation. His process and art actually reminds me of when I was in community college and I worked with a series of still lifes. I also worked in a similar process in the still lifes were created with a 4x5 Horseman Camera similar to the camera Blalock uses. I also use a lot of digital manipulation in my images to distort and create a new perspective. Blalock talks about his art by saying he finds object that he described as “pathetic” are attractive to him and I can understand to how he feels seeing that the most mundane objects can be altered into a completely different view. Though Unlike Blalock his subject matters are often objects sourced from discount stores most of the objects I source for my images usually come from estate sales and second hand objects from friends and family. His work in all is quite innovative as it is said he is also known of his heavy use of photoshop, not to “perfect” what he is creating but to emphasize and reimagine.