Dan Estabrook.

"There will always be sadness and humor in our struggle to find meaning."
-Dan Estabrook

Yesterday I sat in the auditorium of the Art Institute of Boston and listened to Dan Estabrook speak. He skipped high school, went straight to Harvard where he studied alternative photographic processing with my current professor Christopher James, and is now one of the premiere artists in the country. His work is a mixture of alternatively processed images with processes like gum bichromate layered with drawing, sewing, and anything else he can get his hands on. I have had something like an artistic block the past few weeks and listening to this man talk unlocked something in my clouded brain. I suddenly realized how afraid I am to play and work slowly with one topic, to focus and really demand that topic to speak. All the material is in my head, it is at the "source" as Dan would call it, and I have to trust that from it I can create. Despite being on the brink of total, emotional exhaustion, I haven't even begun to push the boundaries with my art. There is a lifetime's worth of material in my head and on the pages of my journals. Now it's time to trust myself and create.

A few samples of his work, for more go to danestabrook.com