You can’t depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus
-Mark Twain
Every day I look at the world in and out of a lens and try to see it differently each time. Being an artist, especially in photography, there are countless ways to view the world. From panoramic to macro, my view through the camera becomes my vision of photography. It is the vision of art and living in that artist world.
I was born in southwestern Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, and I was influenced by the industrial and rural settings of his youth. As an artist and photographer, Kent examines the juxtaposition of nature and technology, and the tension between the two.
My work is full of ‘rural industrialization.’ It reflects a mix of emotions and energy–positive and negative, peaceful and frantic. I observe a world striving for greater technological advances but wanting to remember a simpler, more rural existence.
My subjects try to spark a person’s memory and my work shows images of the past, present, and future, and how these realms collide and coalesce.