Discovery

From the Char (Mending Knee Series)

Metal
25 x 20 in
Michael Endicott

“From the Char” is part observation and part prayer in my Mending Knee Series which tracks with the epidemic and political upheavals of our past five years. Out of the ashes could spring a more equitable republic if we get the reconstruction right. When Colin Kaepernick took to the knee it was a seminal moment. Truly a peaceful protest, and yet he and those that supported him were pilloried. What a heavy price keeps being paid (RIP George Floyd). So many changes need to be made in our cultural, political, and economic infrastructure. We can’t just go back to the “good old days!” Restorative justice is needed now.

It is a two-photograph composite of the x-ray of a broken knee and a madrone tree after a fire. The Pacific Madrone trunks can survive moderate intensity fire, but a high intensity fire will usually destroy the aboveground parts of this tree. The madrone has a fire-resistant underground root mass from which it resprouts aggressively during the first two years following a burn.

Subject Matter: Abstract Realism
Collections: Composite Photography, Mending Knee, Nature

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Michael Endicott is a Fine Art photographer in San Francisco, California. Much of his life has been spent working at the intersection of the political and biological sciences. His camera has been his constant companion and his focus has always been on nature. His artistic perspective is an outgrowth of his experience, at the intersection of the "two worlds" shaped by nature and wo/man. His artwork explores the commonality in structure between the organic and the inorganic –both are comprised of protons, electrons and neutrons.

In essence, Michael produces cellular tapestries designed to connect the micro and macro structures that give shape and life to our world. Over time, his process in the digital darkroom has become more “sculptural” in nature as he bends wavelengths of light and molds multiple shots into one, and his photography has been pulled away from realism into the realm of expressionist or abstract painting. Most recently his abstract realism, The Mad Hatter, was part of the de Young Open at end of 2020. He has five pieces in "Through my Window," a show with 25+ other artists at Gallery House in Palo Alto.

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Michael Endicott

San Francisco, CA

From the Char (Mending Knee Series)