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Yorkrules.com 3.0, which I can almost guarantee will be out some time before the Second Coming, should improve upon the current version in several ways. Most exciting, for me, will be the inclusion of other artists. The prospect excites me so much, in fact, that I can’t wait, so we begin today!
Like me, Azucar is an artist with her own website, AzucarShoots.com. I asked her to select three of her favourite images, and answer a few questions.
Azucar, tell us who you are.
I’m old enough to drink and young enough to still get carded (sometimes anyway). I’ve been around long enough to see a lot of beauty and just as much ugliness and have come to see that they often hold hands. i believe in the power of music, photographs, and words (probably in that order). i was schooled to be a writer and picked up a camera at some point to convey in images what i couldn’t say in words. i like being enigmatic and i like my photos to have some sort of veiled, dark stories. I buck the idea of conventional beauty. I’m drawn to the things that are not normally considered beautiful. I don’t do sunsets, i don’t do flowers, i don’t do anything that makes you say, “awww”. i take photos the way they tell me I shouldn’t and i think it suits me fine.
Why do you create?
Because I can’t not. Art in all forms helps me breathe. Creating it tho, is really like extracting a mental splinter for me. If I don’t do it, there is a nagging sort of uncomfortableness. Once its out there is such an amazing feeling of relief, and comfort, and pleasure.
Darker My Love
Did you create the above image to express the title, or vice versa?
The image came first, the title fit my feelings for it. I went out to the Salton Sea and found this stark beauty. Using the viewfinder of my dear old Argus, this photo is all about bleak and dark and sad and lovely. This photo is my attempt to conveys my feelings about the Salton Sea - this place speaks to me. i work from a place of pain and of sadness and this photo, the Salton Sea as a whole, is a place of pain and sadness and amazing beauty. This photo is an attempt at the combination of those three things.
Picnic
Bleak landscapes often inspire photographers. Why you?
Because i think that capturing a flower isn’t where its at for me. i think there is real beauty in the things that are bleak . i think that looking at the darkness and/or morbidity in life can really make you feel alive.
Sun’s Fading Faster
You often explore vintage vehicles with your camera. Why?
Vintage Automobiles make me yearn for a time i never knew. I am nostalgic for chrome and white walls and road trips. In photographing these cars that i so love, i hope to show people the beauty in them. Beauty that is often overlooked and is being quickly forgotten.
I thank Azucar for sharing with us, and I invite you, noble readers, to visit her at AzucarShoots.com and ask your own questions.
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