Z - a r t B l o g

Surreal, dreamlike photographic compositions that evoke in me a feeling of sadness, melancholy, chaos.
They say that art has to do something to you, that it has to make you think or trigger emotions. If that's your definition of art then you are where you should be with the work of Barbara Lee Black.

That's a lot of praise for a photographer but it doesn't stop there. She constructs here own frames as well, and not just a frame. Barabara starts working from within the image to build a frame around it, extracting elements from the original composition that are then moulded into a frame. In this way she creates a symbioses between artwork and frame melting it together to one piece of beautiful art. Whether the work in the frames parallels or surpasses that of the photograph I can only guess but to me she is both photographer and sculptor.