Found Objects

by Patrick Boehner
(Pleasanton, CA, USA)

Leaves, wood, paper and paint

I have been using my scanner as my digital capture device in the absence of a good camera to create my art for some time now. Not all my works are purely from the scanner, some are a mix of scanner captures and photographic captures combined (its fun to make the two indistinguishable).

In any sense I use both in a similar way (either the scanner or the camera) to capture the objects I collect head on, and not composing until I get it onto the computer and open it up into photoshop.

It may be pushing the notion of "scanography" as my work contains a lot of manipulation (which hopefully does not stand out as a pure manipulation), but still, for me, captures that feeling that scanner images give when something is composed in a head on composition and capture and framed so tightly.

I like the very close up still life compositions I can get of everyday objects (both botanical and man-made) framed in a new perspective.

Each object in this work comes purely from scans: Leaves wood, paper, and paint.

Made in Photoshop CS4 with an Epson Perfection 4490 and V700
Final print 22"x30"