Creativity is part of nature, to do deny this is to deny ourselves.
About Myself
My name is John Salm and I started my artistic journey in 2005. Over the past twenty years, I have taken a number of paths in my artistic journey. From those paths, I have discovered what subjects excite me and there have been times subjects have excited me where I have later lost interest. The subjects that have kept my interest have been subjects that have been water related, trees, and patterns. Also, during this time I have discovered that I am neurodivergent and this is what drives my vision.
My Artwork
When it comes to my artwork medium, I do not consider myself a photographer but as a person who uses a camera to capture light. To put it simply, light is the medium I use to create my artwork. Because of this, I do not feel limited to the colours recorded by the camera or how I use the camera to capture the subject. I may use the camera to intentionally blur to generate patterns. When completing my artwork, I do not manipulate the subject that has been captured but I may change the colours that have been captured. I use a selection of techniques to do this. If I do to decide to use one of those techniques and it does not work, then I discard the captured image and recapture the image again when the conditions are more appropriate for what I want to do. As my finalised artwork is a form of self-expression, I do not use any sort of software including AI to add anything that was not captured by the camera.
My Approach
Finding subjects to capture is a combination of intuition and exploration. Intuition comes into play by recognising the subject to capture and how to capture the subject. Exploration is about wandering and exploring different ways to capture the image. For example, some of my bridge artwork was originally captured from a Citycat. My exploration is also working out when the best time to capture the scene.
My philosophy is that art is to be found, but don't try to find the artwork. Wait and see, and the artwork will reveal itself to you.