Ty’Sean Judd, poet, educator, and agent for positive change
Aji readers, it is our pleasure to introduce you to Ty’Sean Judd, poet, educator, and agent for positive change through his platform Solid Initiative at solidinitiative.org.
Enjoy our latest blog post featuring some of Ty'Sean's work.
Enjoy our latest blog post featuring some of Ty'Sean's work.
Luminous Landscapes with Kathleen Frank
"There is a bold serenity in the flow of repetition. I think patterns help in the seeing of a painting. The eye is carried with it and may be led around a painting by it. Like being in the ocean waves, you can be transported along until one breaks on the surface and you have found something special." - Kathleen Frank Read the full interview in our Spring 2021 issue.
Photographer Spotlight on Jeff Corwin
"The majority of my images of the American West are typically unrecognizable as a specific location. Th ere are hints to locations, but, for instance, much of what I have photographed in Washington could have been shot in Kansas. Driving through Paradise Valley in Montana, I tend to pass by the postcard shots of the mountain ranges on all four sides. I certainly marvel at the vistas and wonder of it all, but I fi nd myself stopping for something else.
The scenes I choose to photograph, what I gravitate towards, are often bleak, lonely and isolated vistas. They speak to me; it is what I see because it is what I feel. I viscerally react. For me, trust is an extremely important aspect of what I do. I learned long ago to trust my vision and not second guess things like content. My reactions corroborate what I always felt was one definition of photography - a recognition of what personally and immediately
resonates, defined by experience, spirit and instinct. So it is not the actual location of the photograph that is significant, but more the imaginative correlations with expansive, yet subtle, feelings and ideas." - Jeff Corwin Read the full interview in our Spring 2021 issue.
The scenes I choose to photograph, what I gravitate towards, are often bleak, lonely and isolated vistas. They speak to me; it is what I see because it is what I feel. I viscerally react. For me, trust is an extremely important aspect of what I do. I learned long ago to trust my vision and not second guess things like content. My reactions corroborate what I always felt was one definition of photography - a recognition of what personally and immediately
resonates, defined by experience, spirit and instinct. So it is not the actual location of the photograph that is significant, but more the imaginative correlations with expansive, yet subtle, feelings and ideas." - Jeff Corwin Read the full interview in our Spring 2021 issue.
