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Betsy Weis uses the digital palette to redefine space, time and color.
Focusing on sensory elements, she creates layers of light and
movement; her images play with the fluidity of memory and the richness of dreams, all the while exploring the mystery of nature. Weis' canvas absorbs and reflects what is most temporal in life, "light, time, perception, beauty and memory." Using a digital camera and a computer, she seeks to illuminate what the human eye cannot see. As she explains, "It starts in nature. Looking into a pond, seeing the water simultaneously from above and below as it reflects and absorbs the light moving through dark layers of color into deep fluid space, its surface moving, reflecting its surroundings, redefining space and time -- it captures a fleeting, deep, meaningful experience."
Weis embraced the digital medium, once described as "anti-human," after discovering its potential spectrum of color and light values. Armed with her camera, computer and artistic imagination, she lays claim to a new territory, where memory and nature intertwine, ultimately shaping a space for the viewer to experience nature more intimately.
Maya Elise Joseph-Goteiner
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