{"id":76,"date":"2018-04-04T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/staging\/index.php\/about\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T20:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T20:04:56","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"CREATIVE PROCESS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-1 wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<section>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Creative Process<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\">In 1976 I self-published my first book of photographs, <i>Jamestown Island<\/i>. I juxtaposed photographs of the natural beauty of the island, site of the first permanent English colony in America, with quotations from the colonists\u2019 diaries describing their hardships. This book is long out of print.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Some years later, living in DC, I took a class in experimental offset (at The Writer\u2019s Center, taught by Kevin Osborn). This opened my eyes to using the press as an art machine. I went on to print both <i>A Selection of Photographs of Specimens in the Conservatory of the United States Botanic Garden<\/i> and <i>Kew, the Royal Botanic Gardens<\/i> on The Writer\u2019s Center\u2019s one-color press using a range of experimental techniques.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\">On the strength of those two books I won a National Endowment for the Arts grant which helped to fund my next two. <i>High School Students<\/i> grew out of an artist residency at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. It is a collection of unembellished portraits of students in a summer art program.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Next came <i>Extinction Event: A Workbook<\/i> in 1988. At the time, the cause of mass extinctions was an unfolding scientific mystery story. So I decided to use brief text entries to summarize the scientific developments while creating visuals of an extinction event in progress.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\">By 2013, digital print-on-demand freed me to design and publish books while sitting in front of my computer. I tried this out with the small set of photos in <i>Butt Ends and Banana Slugs<\/i>. Next was <i>The National Western Stock Show<\/i>, a straightforward documentation of a unique annual event at the Denver stockyards which I photographed for eight years before putting the book together in 2016.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Finally, in 2019, I used print-on-demand to showcase a set of photos which originated 30-odd years ago as 35mm slides. The views of lotus in Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens are accompanied by descriptions of the lotus plant\u2019s amazing qualities, and by photos of Asian artifacts which incorporate lotus motifs.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\">My interest in glasshouses that started in the Conservatory of the U.S. Botanic Garden continues to the present. I have visited and photographed in eight other conservatories in order to create my latest book, <em>Plants Under Glass<\/em>.<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<p><!-- widget-container --><\/p>\n<section><\/section>\n<p><!-- widget-container --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Process In 1976 I self-published my first book of photographs, Jamestown Island. I juxtaposed photographs of the natural beauty of the island, site of the first permanent English colony in America, with quotations from the colonists\u2019 diaries describing their hardships. This book is long out of print. Some years later, living in DC, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/index.php\/about\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lylerosbotham.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}