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Tami Rishona Ellison

תמי ראשונה אליסון

Seeing the World - Mind, Eyes & Lens

2015   Harmony Gallery , Jerusalem Israel *  Hebrew University  - Mt. Scopus - Photage Expressions
 
2014   Nature and Wildlife Photage Exhibit Neve Eshkol Regional Council, Israel * Winter’s Wind Photage Exhibit, Bloomfield Science Museum (www.mada.org.il), Jerusalem, Israel  *  David & Laura Merage Art Gallery, University of Denver Hillel House “Nature, Wildlife and the Song of Creation” * John Fielder's Denver Photo Art Gallery, Emerging Artist PHOTAGE Collection * James H. Larue Library-Douglas County, Solo Exhibit - “Into the Wild” and “Colorado Scapes” Photage collection * Red Line Gallery, Hillel Benefit Spring Fling - Group Show *  International Israel and Judaica Art Fair - Denver, Colorado *
2013   ShutterWorks 6. Group Show “Into the Wild” Photage Series * Yad Vashem, Israel. Archived Collection - Holocaust Remembrance Quilt

Album No.1

Israel Home
...in the beginning

Album No.2

Nature's Best
...honing my craft

Album No.3

Faces, Places & Spaces ...series I-V

Seeing the World
A CONFLUENCE OF ART AND SCIENCE

After discovering a passion, and some talent, for photography my process led me to develop a storytelling tool to convey the rich impressions, experiences,  textures, and colors as I explored this new form of expression.

PHOTAGE ART begins as a story. Each multiplexed image set not only conveys my experiences but also invites viewers to explore and discover their own connections to the content. Each photage conveys a figure-ground dynamic and uses content-rich photographic images to create dynamic 3D-like visual illusions in true 2D space. In neuropsychological terms, these form stable and multi-stable ambiguous image constructs. The 3D-like effect is the result of a combination of factors, including: color differences between the images, eye movement, and the contiguity properties in each image.  

 

While all constructs convey the illusion of depth, multistable figure-ground constructs portray a phenomenon known as PERCEPT SWITCHING - a largely subliminal process as the image that is perceived to occupy the ground position switches depending on where the viewer is looking. This dynamic is complemented by a dynamic virtual re-assembly of the image perceived to be in the ground position despite the spatial separation between the image segments.

The figure-ground effect is facilitated by how differentiated the contiguity properties are in each image and the interactions between image parts- properties that can be manipulated and algorithmically predicted. The image sets and methodology for generating these have applications in cognitive health and visual attentioning for both humans and machines (US Patent 10,582,189, 11,328,822, 11,298,062, 11,158,060, 11,176,675, 11,347,831, 17/890,289).

The image set, titled: "Golden Mornings" was commissioned by the Bloomfield Science Museum (Jerusalem, Israel) as part of a 4-month visual illusion exhibit.

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Tami Ellison - Rishona Studios

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