Transitions: Ron Rothbart: Dancer in Motion #1

Dancer in Motion #116x20" Artist Statement "The camera is much more than a recording apparatus. It is a medium via which messages reach us from another world."  -- Orson Welles  I use my camera to gain access to a reality we don't ordinarily see. Using long exposures, different lenses, and unusual  angles, I can show the world in new ways.  Strange things not seen with the naked eye begin to appear: star trails, ghost-like figures, silky smooth seas, flowing clouds.  I can grab decisive moments, capture change, distill time, show transitions from one state to another, and suggest  growth or emergence. My contributions to the Transitions exhibit include a tree reaching to the sky as it grows and  a dancer's movements.  The dancer project was a collaboration with Mike Slack, who supplied studio and strobe light, and Alice Chacon, dancer, videographer, and my niece. The title "More Than Tree" comes from this poem by Langston Hughes: “And so the rootbecomes a trunkAnd then a treeAnd seeds