Pale turquoise and white currents move across the square frame without horizon, shoreline or any fixed point of reference. Layers of extended-exposure surf overlap and fold into one another until waves become soft gestures—part water, part brushstroke, part memory of movement.
I am interested in the point where the photograph stops explaining what the ocean looked like. By reversing, layering and recombining fragments of moving water, I add my own disorder to the natural chaos of the sea.
Eventually the turbulence finds a balance.
That is the moment when I stop moving the pieces and let the picture become still.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Wonderful Chaos — Abstract Wave Fine Art Photography
Title:Wonderful Chaos One
Artwork: #2875
Location: Tasman Sea, Kiama, South Coast of New South Wales, Australia
Subject: Layered abstract studies of breaking ocean waves
Medium: Colour fine art photography
Process: Multiple long-exposure wave photographs reversed, flipped and layered into a composite image
Format: Square
Genre: Abstract photography / seascape
Themes: Movement, turbulence, time, memory, water, abstraction, calm
Edition: Master Edition — limited to 2 prints
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
This Master Edition is limited to an edition of only two prints available in either Medium (60×60cm), Large (90x90cm) or Extra Large (120x120cm).
Pale turquoise and white currents move across the square frame without horizon, shoreline or any fixed point of reference. Layers of extended-exposure surf overlap and fold into one another until waves become soft gestures—part water, part brushstroke, part memory of movement.
I am interested in the point where the photograph stops explaining what the ocean looked like. By reversing, layering and recombining fragments of moving water, I add my own disorder to the natural chaos of the sea.
Eventually the turbulence finds a balance.
That is the moment when I stop moving the pieces and let the picture become still.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Wonderful Chaos — Abstract Wave Fine Art Photography
Title:Wonderful Chaos One
Artwork: #2875
Location: Tasman Sea, Kiama, South Coast of New South Wales, Australia
Subject: Layered abstract studies of breaking ocean waves
Medium: Colour fine art photography
Process: Multiple long-exposure wave photographs reversed, flipped and layered into a composite image
Format: Square
Genre: Abstract photography / seascape
Themes: Movement, turbulence, time, memory, water, abstraction, calm
Edition: Master Edition — limited to 2 prints
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
This Master Edition is limited to an edition of only two prints available in either Medium (60×60cm), Large (90x90cm) or Extra Large (120x120cm).
