Yvette Lucas

 

 

My relationship with photography has developed over 30 years, starting with setting up my own darkroom in a crawlsapce under the house I grew up in, through college and subsequent eductation, and all through my professional career. I have kept my art to myself for the most part, but have recently started exhibiting.

I develop an intimacy with my subjects through the camera in a way that differs from how I interact otherwise. I percieve the world more intuitively through the viewfinder of a camera than I do with my naked eyes, and the ability to capture those perceptions through the medium of photography has always inpsired me.

Nature in it's many forms dominates most of the iimages I am drawn to. In a natural environement, in it's elemental state I feel life most vigorously. Water, rock, tree, soil and sky come together again and again in infinite designs and patters that breath, grow and change. A living artwork and the ulitmate creation, nature speaks to me most through details, short stories adn vignettes rather than broad expanses of landscape. I take what calls to me, tells me about its life, and points to God.