Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Brooklyn Portal to the Sky
Medium:
Photography
Artist Statement:
These images are part of an ongoing series of photographic works I incorporate into my painting collages titled “The Sky Portals.” They celebrate the sense of openness, freedom, hope, and possibility inherent in our natural world, just by looking up. My images are from a collection of photos taken during a two-year residence in Brooklyn. When reproduced and constructed as pinwheels, and spinning in the wind, the kaleidoscopic “Brooklyn Sky Portals” become patterns of colored concentric circles.