{"id":162,"date":"2014-07-25T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T22:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neptune\/web_ARDev\/?p=162"},"modified":"2023-01-19T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T02:38:13","slug":"birth-of-abstracted-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abstractedreality.com\/birth-of-abstracted-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Abstracted Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"
How did my journey into the realms of Abstracted Reality begin?<\/p>\n
I\u2019d like to start by giving you a little background.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m a musician.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve played the piano since I was nine years old and I\u2019ve been teaching the piano for over twenty years.\u00a0\u00a0 Along the way I ventured into composition and created a series of books for young pianists.\u00a0\u00a0 The process of writing music and ultimately getting published was a challenge which I greatly enjoyed.<\/p>\n
Having achieved this goal, I then started to look for a new and different creative challenge.\u00a0\u00a0 Something visual seemed perfect as it would complement my musical background.\u00a0\u00a0 However, my ability to produce anything on canvas which would contain the slightest kernel of artistic merit is nil.\u00a0\u00a0 That narrowed down the field considerably to photography.<\/p>\n
So, I decided to join the Dunedin Photographic Society and Dunedin Camera Club.\u00a0\u00a0 Being a complete photographic novice, I looked, and listened and absorbed as much information as I possibly could.\u00a0\u00a0 But for the first few years I really only dabbled.\u00a0\u00a0 Frankly, I desperately needed some sense of direction and motivation!<\/p>\n