Recent Works
by Rick Doble
Background Midi 'Ancience'
By Keith Bramich copyright 1998, all rights reserved
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Christmas Lights: Folk Art and Angels
Morehead City, North Carolina, USA
December 1998

(Digital photographs taken with a Casio QV-100 camera)

Plus

Animated Gifs from Snowflakes Series and more recent work

Christmas Lights images taken from one elaborate installation.

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star lights
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Sun
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Animated Gifs
(Please be Patient
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Lamp

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Snowflake
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Snowflake
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Artist's Comments

Re Christmas Lights as Folk Art:

"Christmas lights are a true art form. They are probably older than civilization since they have been created at the time of the winter solstice, the darkest time of the year. This urge to fill our world with light when the sun wanes is an ancient one.

Now that outsider art and folk art is getting some of the attention it deserves, I would hope that people can look at Christmas light art with a new eye. Carefully constructed worlds such as this annual light show in Morehead City, NC are well thought out and as intricate and beautiful as Indian bead work or aboriginal paintings.

And this art is done for the right reasons: not to make money or be famous but to express a deep personal, cultural and human emotion."



RE Animated Gifs

"My small animations are NOT "mini-movies" but an art form that is quite different. Because they loop and repeat, because the timing is often different from frame to frame, and because pictures may have been taken at different intervals (not regular short intervals like film or video), they are more like music or a pulsing living being. (Animate means "having life" according to the dictionary.) Unlike still photography which deals in two dimensions (x and y axis), these photographic animations deal in four dimensions (x, y, z axis plus time). Little animations may achieve what the cubist and futurist painters at the beginning of the century were trying to achieve, that is the ability to see the whole object in space and time in one work of art. Four dimensions is not just a concept but a reality of physics. For example Einstein adapted the age-old Pythagorean formula for the hypotenuse of a triangle to accommodate time as another component."

Biographical Comments: (See also our Archives at the Australian National Library, July Animist 1998) Rick Doble has a Masters in Communications, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC, 1975. He has been a professional photographer and photography teacher for 30 years, and has 15 years experience with computers, including programming.



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