Women in Art 278 Magazine January 2015 | Page 17

american artist Dolores Kiriacon photography Forms Found in Nature dried found on my daily walks. These collections of natural forms are photographed in doors, placed on a reflective surface using natural light. I create still life compositions often recomposing them many times, looking for shapes, lines, colors and textures, to find an arrangement that pleases my eye and the lighting is right. With today’s editing technology, the colors, shapes and textures become vibrant, allowing the viewer to appreciate nature’s forms in a new and different way. en ART wom My photographs are portraits/still lifes of forms found in nature, from flowers, dried leaves, twigs, to the bark of trees in their various stages of growth and natural decline. With a BFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC, I have worked in the arts my entire life, from printmaking to bronze sculpting to architectural design. Photography is now my preferred medium. My work is about seeing – seeing things like they haven’t been seen before. I have become a collector of natural forms that have page 17