Into the Magic Space book

book cover and title page

Curious Matter presents

Into the Magic Space

by Arthur Bruso

INTO THE MAGIC SPACE reproduces 22 photo-based works
from the two collections, Into the Magic Space
and The House Falls Into Meadow From the Meadow Rises a Forest.

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The House Falls Into Meadow From the Meadow Rises a Forest

This series of 9 images is about the natural cycles of life and their relation to mythology. I watched as changes manifested around me: a house, a fire, a meadow, a basketball court. One state turning into another, just as the elm trees leafed in the spring, shed their seed, then dropped their leaves in the fall, finally succumbing to disease and being felled. These were the great cycles of life and death. I sensed the greatness of it. I understood the myths about it. For how can these cycles come to pass without the grand forces of nature acting upon them? This is the story I have tried to tell in these images.

THE HOUSE FALLS INTO MEADOW FROM THE MEADOW RISES A FOREST -
N0. 1 - Helios Tracks the Course of Ra and Plots for His Day as the Sun
photograph with hand color

THE HOUSE FALLS INTO MEADOW FROM THE MEADOW RISES A FOREST -
No. 7 - Demeter Vows That We Shall All Pay For Her Loss of Persephone
(for Rita Dove)
photograph

Into the Magic Space

This series of 12 images is informed by laws of the physical universe. The decaying shed suggested entropy; how things fall apart and disorder is the rule. All of the images in the series correlated to theories of astronomy and the processes of the universe. The colored areas provide the clues for the magic space. The color transforms the mundane into the place of interest, the place where the real transforms into the conceptual.

The Hudson Reporter/Current in Jersey City, NJ wrote about my exhibition.

INTO THE MAGIC SPACE - No. 1 - Entropic Inertia,

photograph with hand color

INTO THE MAGIC SPACE - N0. 6 -
The Gravitational Attraction Between Distant Objects,

photograph with hand color