Escape Into Life
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
-Jackson Pollock
escape into
Xavier Encinas
2009
What I like about these photographs is how an atmosphere of desertion and solitude pervades the work. I don’t feel sad, however, looking at these pictures. Rather I feel a sort of nostalgia that is almost uplifting. I feel almost as I did when I was young and would go on little adventures through empty lots and construction, or fields far removed from any sign of civilization. The airplane in particular connotes a childlike nostalgia for flying, but because the airplane is stored away in a shed and most likely unusable, the picture evokes the sense of arrested dreams, dreams frozen in the past.
Xavier Encinas is a french Art Director living and working in Vancouver, BC. He is also a Partner and Graphic Designer for the new French Fashion Magazine Under The Influence.
www.photography.xavierencinas.com/
After graduating from the painting department of the Tokyo Zokei University, he experimented with the Ukiyo-e Pop style.
Stefano Unterthiner specializes in trying to tell an animal’s life story, which brings him close to a particular species for long periods of time.