Brandon Jacob Hudson

My art is mostly photo-based and often incorporates mixed mediums to produce one-of-a-kind prints. Through the different bodies of work, I explore different ways of looking at life and search for new ways of seeing. In my most recent artworks, a record of light is blended with a record of life. I draw, paint, and add texture to the photographs I take. I use this process to create imagery that collaborates the observation of a space and objects within it with these same spaces and objects as they appear as ink on a sheet of paper, immobile and detached from their original context. The photographs are illusions into a past space or absent thing, but I treat them almost like young plants, watching them grow as I add new media over them. I draw with the image and let it guide my new lines, textures and colors. There is no desired goal or ultimate destination, but simply a shared experience. I mainly contribute during the moment I decide to press the shutter-release button on the camera, hoping to make a record of a time and place that I will later return to and confront an indescribable impulse to slowly feel and make conscious the life that appears.