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The works of photographer
Brian Winebrenner reflect a strong, courageous point of
view. In his piece Dandelion, the artist has chosen
to photograph this "weed we love to hate", not
as a bed of tiny yellow flowers stretching across a glorious
field reaching up to a perfect blue sky, but instead as
a single blossom head immersed in a bed of tangled greens
and dead, brown grass, set against a scratched, weather-beaten
board while broken twigs appear in the foreground. Even
the subject itself represents a daunting strength, growing
under more adverse circumstances than most of its competitors.
And in Birdhouse, we see leafless, uprooted trees,
snow covered branches and a single birdhouse defying the
elements to provide warmth and protection.
Disabled in 2001 by a bipolar disorder
and chronic fatigue syndrome, Winebrenner says he draws
on these disabilities while creating his art. Perhaps it
is due to this methodology he assigns himself that his images
project their severity of mood, lightly touched by a fragment
of hope.
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