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Mixed media artist and video producer Karen Landey, has produced nine issues of INDIE ARTS: The DVD Magazine. This cutting edge DVD format features videotaped interviews with mixed media and collage artists and offers ideas for indie artists to take their art to the next level and ways to get their artwork seen. She is also busy creating experimental videos which will premiere here.

Essence

Found out I was one of three juror’s selections at the Salisbury University’s Summer Shorts Festival for my video art piece, “The Billboard.”  Now I’m working on a new video piece called “Essence” which means “to be” and its proving to be very challenging to find a way to express such an elusive idea with visual images.  There is just one thing missing and once I find it I will be able to finish it…

Never thought I would see…

I saw strange things yesterday, including blue spray paint around dog duty with overspray coloring the poo blue on my morning walk on the Fanno Creek greenway. On the highway, a disabled tan sedan completely wrapped in saran wrap, looking like a tuna salad sandwich on whole wheat in a deli case.

I Witness

Will be showing two short video art pieces at a screening at the Portland Art Museum’s Whitsell Auditorium on July 2nd at 7PM organized by NWFC.  This image is from one of the pieces called “I Witness” and explores the truth of memories, thoughts, sensory perception and the imagination. I explore the silent witness that is the space in which thoughts exist and where the viewer becomes aware of herself.  Fragile thoughts are caught in a feedback loop within the neural network of the brain.  Memories become colored by repetitive recreation in the imagination.  Raw sensory data gets interpreted through the neurophysiology of perception and we are forever changed by what we perceive.  What we perceive is unique to each of us and how it is expressed and projected into the world is intuitive and imaginative.

The Visitor

Using my favorite video filter, Glitterato from Flaming Pear, I really pushed this background to create a surreal environment for the mysterious visitor to visit.

Visibility – an experimental video

Video doodle that plays with the idea of how awareness defines experience. What makes one thing visible and another invisible? I used the image of the woman from a digital collage I did this week  and this video segment will be part of a longer video art piece that I will submit to film festivals in the future.  Video art by Karen Landey

Map to somewhere

I started this collage a couple of years ago and just finished it today starting from a mixed media collage and ending up in Photoshop.  I’m not sure what prompted me to finish this, but I love the surreal road map, visa stamps and odd combination of elements.  Maybe it was the three hour David Lynch movie that I just watched that bent reality…

Life is but a dream… an experimental video

This video doodle uses the song, “Row row row your boat” to explore a surreal landscape where life is but a dream…  Video art and music by Karen Landey

Door #2 – an experimental video

Another quantum physics challenge question. What if parallel universes existed within the same space as ours and opening a door leads to a glimpse inside another universe? Video art by Karen Landey.

Breaking a habit

Saw this copyright free clip art photo of the girl holding a stop sign and have been wanting to do something special with it for quite a while now.  Played around with five different textures to color and add interest to the background.  Reminds me to be aware and awake.

Burned Beach

I’m implementing new Photo Shop tricks I’ve been learning, using alpha channels as a mask to add texture and interesting layering.  This collage uses a photo I took at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, OR and then I used a waterfall’s alpha channel to add the interesting texture on the left side of the collage.  This will eventually make its way into After Effects where I will use it as background or animate it in some way.  I loved the amber and black colors which reminded me of film burn, so I call this piece, Burned Beach.