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Lives and works in victoria, B.C., Canada

THE ARTIST ONLINE www.raymondstarnaud.com

Raymond St. Arnaud is a visual artist and photographer,
living in victoria, BC, Canada. He uses photography to
explore his personal visual boundaries.
"The world presents itself and occasionally, I take the time
to observe. There are times when the observation takes
on the form of obsession, at other times it is the casual
encounter. These moments become photographs. Believing
that the normal needs to be elevated by exaggeration or
simplification, I apply my skills to interpret these instances."
The photographs are spontaneous responses to observed
situations and can be described as photographing a found
object or incident. Some of the sub-themes are; details
in manufactured and constructed objects, contrast of
organic shapes against structures, geometrics, denial of
depth, the isolated individual, scientific theories, Tv as an
authenticating force and abstraction. The images have
been modified substantially in Photoshop to exaggerate/
suppress aspects of the original photograph, mainly color
and detail. The subject content of the photograph has not
been altered. Some of the methods I use to manipulate
images are recursive or self-referential; image modifies
image; source becomes modifier. The resulting images
have a hyper-reality and validation that goes beyond what
we believe in real life. Over the past few years, Raymond
St. Arnaud has been in transition from being "art prints
centric" to "art book centric". While still producing prints
for exhibition or sale, he now publishes his projects as
books through Amazon.com. Books are now an alternate
form of artwork, rather than being books, a commodity.
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