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The digital quality of Dakota’s phone camera is juxtaposed with tight, close-up shots of a floral still-life composed with various fruits and blooms. A tension lies between the limited quality of the camera and the illusive natural details the artist tries to capture. This visual tension is further emphasized as each subject is covered by a loose weave textile that creates a barrier and blurred effect underlining the increasingly delicate shroud between nature and humanity.
The floral subjects appear accessible and close at hand, set up as intimate and quasi sensual landscapes; yet the blooms are just out of reach, incarcerated yet visible through the mesh and lit from behind like ghostly trophies.
Dakota’s works speak to the sublime physical feelings of simultaneous attraction and aversion, exploration and restraint that we feel towards Mother Nature. Manipulating the photographs digitally, Dakota pushes colour combinations into abstraction where images explore formalist concepts of ‘universal beauty’ through colour and composition. Each piece questions the honesty of our romance with nature and challenges our true devotion to the environment.
Paul Dakota is a photographer. Much of his work is abstract. Dakota has exhibited in Toronto in various art spaces. With Canadian art company HelloArtCanada Dakota has placed installations in various corporate Toronto locations. As well he has shot album covers for artists Gallery 6 and Forest Management.
This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks. Each art print is listed by sheet size and features a minimum one-inch border.
