Chris Johnson's Page

Website

http://I can be contacted at: Fyrwnrdy@yahoo.com

Relationship status

single

College / University

spent one year in college, preparing for a career in Photojournalism, which I never pursued

Program

mostly was involved in Alcohol Research, and exploring the world of Herbal Magic

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Photography

I am...

working on lots of things, every time I pick up a camera, it's an adventure,
and when IT happens, it's magic

About my artwork

my images are like stepping stones, each only represents where I was at the time, and hopefully in the making of each, I learned, or was able to take another step towards where I was going, which, frankly, is an evolving journey and the destination seems to always getting further away, and I will only know where or what I am looking for when I find it,
but it is a fascinating, difficult, demanding, maddening, frustrating, occasionally totally rewarding journey, and I would not trade it for anything
The creative drive, and the will, determination, practice and pursuit of more and better, is what distinguishes us from the "average", and also is a form of madness, but one that if you are afflicted with, you are indeed fortunate.

Artists I like

Maxfield Parrish, Rembrandt, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa,Ansel Adams,Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Larry Burrows,many Chinese painters, I am very much into representational images, I interned all through high school at a metro newspaper that put out 2 editions a day, I ran the photo lab, and in that setting, the goal was to produce images that got something across, conveyed a story even at a glance, but I find myself more and more pursuing simpler more elemental things....and nuances,
we change and evolve, and hopefully begin to understand the nature of things

Interests

the nature of things, making progress, and having a good time and learning in the process, it's the journey...

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

I have no idea, my main source of exposure to other's work is this site, and the people I know locally who are making things, in a variety of media

Centre of the artworld:

nowhere and everywhere