Mary Bedy Photography

Eye Exam Orange 072420 During this Covid lockdown, and due to the fact that it has been virtually impossible or at least ill-advised to travel very far, especially in groups of people, I have resorted to creating some digital designs for fun, art-related satisfaction, and maybe eventually some kind of profit, if someone decides they want to buy one of my designs for something fun to look at or to put it together as a puzzle. Alternate View I have noticed that when I create a digital abstract design (mostly because I don’t have a tablet pen yet, and it’s hard to draw anything realistic with your finger), they tend to come out looking a bit mid-century modern. I don’t know how modern I am, but I’m definitely mid-century. I can see now how hard it is to give an abstract piece of art a name. I guess some artists resort to “Abstract Number 1” and a date. Or “Blue Abstract”. I, on the other hand, just look at the finished work and try to get a quick impression of what it reminds me of. Cha

After the Thaw     Art is subjective, yes, but have you even looked around you and been mesmerized by the pattern of something mundane? The odd shadow shape, the cracks in the sidewalk that look like “something” that you can’t quite name, the worn paint on the parking lot pavement. No? You’ve never noticed these things? Might I suggest you take a closer look. 9th Street 2 When I was a kid - up to the age of about 12, I was attracted to art - paintings and sculpture of all kinds, but I didn’t really like or appreciate what would be considered abstract art. Art without a defined and recognizable subject didn’t do anything for me, then I discovered Paul Klee and Joan Miro and Piet Mondrian, and I started looking at abstract art differently. These painters spoke to me. With Piet Mondrian, not so much his later works for which he is most famous, but his earlier stuff whereby he took a tree or the shape of a pier and abstracted them until they were just shapes reminiscent of the actual thing