Dan Forzano
21st Century Pictograph
a little place in the woods
15 minutes in Warhol's Shadow
together
blue phase
Altair
other side of the sky
passing by
road trip
you could never guess
generations on the shore
emergence
the nature of art
in rainbows
waiting on the sea
a life in hand
the day we buried a finch
buoyant
pinwheel
here in the past, here in the present
2147 - July
Bio/Artist Statement
I approach my photography with a jazz sensibility. Projects start with a general idea or mood, but each shoot is an improvisation. The images are shaped by the moment and the subject itself. What I’m pursuing is essence, not a predefined image.
Since the mid 2000’s the images I create reside somewhere between the subjective, and shifting landscape of memory, and the surreal and quickly fading recollection of dreams upon waking. There is a constant search for the ungraspable. Familiar and unknown at the same time. A bit of mystery.
Viewers must bring their own interpretation to my images. Though the moments are true - unplanned, uncontrolled, and often intimate but I inject ambiguity by removing discernible focus — either literally, or through framing and composition. The viewer must draw their own conclusions.
The act of defocusing removes specificity with the intent to move towards universality — while still feeling somehow personal.
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