Discovering the Unseen
By Pete Milosovich
The encroachment of our man made world cannot be denied. Endless reproach from naysayers may spring eternal, but examing the reality of human culture through the lens of black and white photography reveals the inevitable truth. Not because color becomes effectively denied, but rather our sensibilities become honed to a far different world that can still evoke so much.
The photographic images eternally captured by Dean Wenick in 10 from ’10, reinvent the stark reality of such a world. Contexts from multiple perspectives: cluttered by artifacts from the past and present, industrial transports, the repetition of Buddha’s bust on multiple wooden planes, the sparse canopy of trees overhead; complex mastery of captured reflections, and unique perspectives produces fascinating material, sometimes bound by illusion, sometimes repetition and unique subject matter, but never convention.
Mr. Wenick’s elusive themes stem from his acute understanding of the picture frame, where so many subjects present themselves, but elude the unskilled, the lackadaisical, or the disinterested. Mr. Wenick brings his unique vision to fruition when he snaps the shutter, at the precise moment of carefully orchestrated finality.
Regardless of the ideological baggage hurled at the world, when so many desperately search for deeper meaning through what they perceive as objective, rather than what they seek to impose. Mr. Wenick seeks to capture a far older, perhaps ancient need that resides in our hearts; unyielding desire for beauty in our lives, beauty that eludes ordinary mundane sensibilities, or becomes exploited at the hands of rampant commercialism.
By Pete Milosovich
The encroachment of our man made world cannot be denied. Endless reproach from naysayers may spring eternal, but examing the reality of human culture through the lens of black and white photography reveals the inevitable truth. Not because color becomes effectively denied, but rather our sensibilities become honed to a far different world that can still evoke so much.
The photographic images eternally captured by Dean Wenick in 10 from ’10, reinvent the stark reality of such a world. Contexts from multiple perspectives: cluttered by artifacts from the past and present, industrial transports, the repetition of Buddha’s bust on multiple wooden planes, the sparse canopy of trees overhead; complex mastery of captured reflections, and unique perspectives produces fascinating material, sometimes bound by illusion, sometimes repetition and unique subject matter, but never convention.
Mr. Wenick’s elusive themes stem from his acute understanding of the picture frame, where so many subjects present themselves, but elude the unskilled, the lackadaisical, or the disinterested. Mr. Wenick brings his unique vision to fruition when he snaps the shutter, at the precise moment of carefully orchestrated finality.
Regardless of the ideological baggage hurled at the world, when so many desperately search for deeper meaning through what they perceive as objective, rather than what they seek to impose. Mr. Wenick seeks to capture a far older, perhaps ancient need that resides in our hearts; unyielding desire for beauty in our lives, beauty that eludes ordinary mundane sensibilities, or becomes exploited at the hands of rampant commercialism.
