Natural Expressionism: Natural Expressionism is a term coined by photographer Jason Lawrence Olive to describe his approach of combining fine art photographic techniques with raw nature to create expressionist and abstract-expressionist works of art.
The Sol Collection is an ongoing series of sunrises and sunsets from around the world. Each piece seeks to express Olive’s feeling of the space and time the image was taken. An image taken on Christmas Day in Mexico might conjure the feeling of unbridled hope and exuberant faith. An image taken on Memorial Day takes on the perplexities of honor, love, mourning and the need to move forward with the endless tides of time. Still other images tap into the sultry and expansive power of nightfall.
The Sol Collection presents a new, multi-dimensioanl look at two of the most photographed experiences on earth - sunrise and sunset.
“By way of time-lapsed techniques the images admit the viewer to that which is unseen. These images are all in-camera, meaning there are no digital post-prodcution techniques used to alter the image outside of what was available to us as film photographers. All of my collection pieces are shot under these rules. It also means that the images of the Sol Collection did actually exist in nature but that they could not be seen by the naked eye. It is only through the mechanism of the camera that they can me ‘brought to light’ so to speak. In this way the Sol Collection speaks to the subliminal workings of nature on the human experience.” Jason Lawrence Olive.
