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Gregory Brown

  • Writer: Dorothy Annette
    Dorothy Annette
  • May 5
  • 1 min read

I met the photographer and artist Gregory Brown at one of the Martin Luther King, Jr. choir performances. The more we talked about our art and mutual love of collage, the more I realized I wanted to view his work, so he sent me an image of the piece pictured below.

Abstract collage by Gregory Brown with blue tones, featuring an eye, swirling patterns, and dynamic, striped human figures.
Mixed media cyanotype collage,"SAMSARA" by Gregory Brown

The "SAMSARA" mixed media cyanotype print collage pictured above is an elegant and strong Symbolist inspired piece from Gregory Brown. He explained to me more about the work:


"When I made the print I used images from my collection of negative transparencies. I was focused on curving line patterns, with blowups of old engravings and my own photos of bubbles. I had no other overall theme in mind. The human figures are from a book by Gustav Doré that illustrates Dante's poem The Divine Comedy".


"Some time after I made the print I realized that the images I'd used were of transitory things that don't last - bubbles, human lives, waves of water. I could have chosen them unconsciously and made a symbolic representation of how all things must pass. Do you see that in the work? Also the image of the eye could mean that we have the capacity to see and understand that nothing lasts."


Discover more about Gregory Brown and his art by visiting his Website gregbrownartist.com.

 
 
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