KAYZOWL

Traditional Art

During college I took a photography course where I used my dad's old Canon camera and learned how to take pictures, develop film, and print my own photographs. I had a particular interest in long exposures in low lighting that would allow me to phorograph people so that they looked ghostly and indistinct, or to play with capturing light.

Photography

dark interior photograph in black and white of a woman in a white blouse facing a translucent, ghostly mirror image of herself. There is some motion blur that makes it look as though the mirror image is siphoning her energy from her. — confrontation

dark, indistinct, black and white photograph of a woman in a skirt twirling on top of a small table. She is holding a light, so there are long, bright streaks that seem to spin around her. — dance

black and white landscape of a river with a woman in a white, flowing dress in the foreground, looking back over her shoulder at the person holding the camera. She looks like maybe she just asked a question and is waiting for an answer. — dreaming

black and white photo of a woman in a light-colored floral dress, dark wavy hair hiding her face, holding a throw pillow in each hand. She has just stepped off of a table and is in midair several feet above the ground, so it looks like she is floating. — fly

black and white photograph of an outdoor playground at night, three people sitting at a picnic table looking at a small vase with flowers in it. One asian boy is standing on the bench, bent over to inspect the flower. a woman with a hat and short biker gloves is lying on her stomach on the table, and a second woman is seated with her back against the table, something in her mouth as she also stares at the flower, but she's partially see-through, as though she's not really there. — fronshoip

black and white photograph taken at an antique shop, shelves full of knickknacks out of focus in the background, and a figure of a man in a racecar in the foreground. — on your mark

black and white photo of a woman lying down on a hardwood floor, arms curled around a bright glowing light that she's looking at possessively. — all mine

black and white photo of a shiny metal drinking fountain covered in drops of water, an asian woman reflected in its surface. — reflect

black and white interior of a mostly empty room with scuff marks all over the wall and some scaffolding to one side, a blurry, indistinct, and semi-transparent figure sitting on it. The figure is holding a bright light that has a long trail that extends around and out of frame. This was the studio where I had one of my painting classes in college, and me sitting on the scaffolding. I used a tripod and a long exposure to run into frame and sit for the end of the capture. — self portrait

black and white photo of the interior of a conference room, with an asian man holding up a camera to take a picture of a woman sitting on the table, reading. — step 1

in the same conference room from the previous photo (step 1), the man has turned toward the viewer, looking down at his camera, presumably because it isn't working properly, and the woman has stood up on the table. She is holding a glowing object and is slightly blurry with movement, and a ghostly afterimage of her walking away is visible next to her. — step 2

in the same conference room from the last two photos (step 1 and 2), the man is looking through his camera toward the viewer, and the woman, even more blurred and indistinct than in the last image, is looking at him from behind him at the far end of the table, looking like she might be shouting or pointing at him, but he clearly doesn't hear her. — step 3

black and white photograph from an antique shop of a collection of reflective metal teapots and creamers. — teapots

black and white photograph of a low angle of two people walking past each other in a hallway, only visible from the waist down. The floor is very clean and reflective, and the wall of the hallway has large windows, an overgrown yard visible through the glass. — walk walk fashion baby

Oil Painting

oils on canvas

a blurry photo of an other-worldly oil painting, the top third pale purple and foggy with a long line of ghostly people queued up at the edge of a crevasse, a gnarled tree and strange, gnarled creature guarding the other side of the gap. There is a golden glow emerging from the crevasse, and the bottom two-thirds of the canvas are the drippy underside of the ground, roots hanging down from the dirt above, the golden glow fading into oranges and reds. — crossing

Oil painting with four silhouetted figures in blues and purples in a red-orange scene, three figures grouped in the foreground talking to each other, and the fourth in the middle ground, solitary and with a long shadow. The background is some sort of building with repeating columns that look reminiscent of the bars of a cell, and the whole painting has drips and looks rather nightmare-like. — gossip

drippy oil painting of an underground tunnel, with a white ghostly figure shushing the viewer as they approach a bend in the tunnel toward a mysterious, bright yellow glow. — tunnel