Ursa Schoepper
Germany
www.virtuelledenkraeume.de
Physiological vision plays a subordinate role in the creation of my experimental photographic art. Crucial is inward-directed vision, imagination. It is not a finished work, but rather the ongoing development of an idea. Thinking without reason. Reordering through experimentation. It is a breaking down of perceptual routines. Due to the technical, physical-mathematical foundations, deconstruction is experimentally possible with digital photography. Art, and certainly experimental photography as well, does not take into account any reality outside of artistic reality. It possesses its own sphere of reality.
The beauty of experimental art lies in the fact that the value of an idea cannot be mathematically calculated. Digital resources operate according to the code of "either/or." However, playing with an artistic idea is not computable. Creativity and innovation follow a both/and principle. The photographic artist as constructor is a creator, not a draftsman, not a graphic artist, not a copyist. As a phantom of light, photography becomes the bearers for an artistic vision.
A comparison with a symphony can clarify these connections. The perceived music corresponds to the image. The score of the symphony can be compared to the digital representation. The notes of the score can be accentuated differently, individual passages can be particularly emphasized for selected instruments. Thus, a new piece of music can emerge based on the score. In this case, the artist is both composer and conductor. The irrational, the virtual possibility is inherent in everything real.©ursa schoepper
