McGREGOR - MARQUETTE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
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At the McGregor-Marquette Center for the Arts
158 Main Street, P.O. Box 451
McGregor, Iowa  52157
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JOHN WALTE

Highland, Wisconsin

Website:  http://johnfwalte.com

Medium:  Digital Photography

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Artist Statement: After moving from a large, urban environment to an abandoned farm in Southwestern Wisconsin, I found my senses overwhelmed not by noise and congestion, but by the diversity in animal and plant life. Sympathy to the notion that all things are one was replaced by firsthand knowledge garnered in the steep learning curve of nurturing a forest, tending to wetlands and fostering a creek. 


This photo-based series called Hyper Tiles, Hyper Worlds, and Vortexes, attempts to show the viewer what I see and feel when immersed in wetlands or woods: A connectivity that occurs at both the macro- and micro-scopic level. A mesh of reality that is unseen by us when, with a fleeting glance, we allow things outside our ken to be glossed over. Beyond tiny invertebrates, past the molecular to the very fabric that ties us all together, animate and inanimate. Using the computer, I am mapping photographs of my environment onto dimensional shapes formed with fractal mathematics, a process made smoother by a series of now defunct paint program "plug-ins" created by mathematicians Kai Krause and Eric Wenger. I get repeatable and expected results, having developed a work flow that allows me to avoid the dreaded digital push-button art syndrome. 


Every day brings new mysteries when we try to look at things just a little differently.
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