Artist Review: Ea Vasko 10/7

Ea Vasko.
City / Disorder VII, 2008

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City / Disorder VI, 2007

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An artists that uses abstraction as one of her main criterias for making imagery, Ea Vasko considers the viewing process an act of sorts. In one of her statements she says "... a picture taken in a clear light is like a fact. It does not leave any room for imagination. When the object is clearly recognizable, it is also easily ignorable.".In her series Defining Darkness, Vasko's use of abstraction in light and color to change the perception o the images makes the viewer really look and think about what the photograph is.

Coming from working with darkness, and artificial light myself I interpret this work in many different ways. I think this work does a beautiful job of displaying chaos. Just the act of trying to pinpoint something tageble from this work is so task oriented it makes you tired. The city, especially when night falls, becomes erupted with artificial light. The process that a person must go through to acclimate to such things is hard and at least for me a bit overwhelming.

Vasko's imagery also makes me uneasy. It makes me think she herself is unsure. It's just oriented in such a way that you can almost make the colors or spacing out, yet you never come to a full/definite conclusion as to what is producing this light. And in that way, the obscurity is the can frustrate you, as well as be the only thing that keeps you looking.

I think her work is smart, and simply beautiful. It is not only the abstracted qualities of this work that keeps my interest but the quality of her photographs. They are beautiful, and colorful. Her composition of each one is perfect. Vasko has a keen eye for shape and form.

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