A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
Tao Te Ching
1 – Introduction
This is the third and final part of this three-parts series on triptychs. After looking at the fundamental aspects of triptychs in part one and at color triptych examples in part two we are now going to look at black and white triptych examples. This essay consists of six series of triptychs. Each series is inspired by a specific natural location or a natural concept. The locations featured in this essay are Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon, and Arcosanti. The concepts are Clouds, Trees and Canyon Forms.
2 - Grand Canyon Black and White Triptychs
The three triptychs in this first section are not quite black and white. However, I decided to include them in this essay because even though they are technically ‘color’ images they are primarily monochromatic images. Before making the images you see here I created another version in which I removed all the color. However, when turned into pure blac...
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