Todd McClellan

Whoo child these artists are just a never ending barrage of...well, awesome.  My latest find (though I'm certainly not pioneering anything...) is a photographer by the name of Todd McClellan.  I came across him while going on my ritual hunt for the next creative monkey to catch my eye and steal my heart. 

Now...this isn't to say that I've fallen madly in love with Mister McClellan.  Rather I've become quite intrigued by his latest body of work, since it seems that he is more versed in using his photography skills for commercial related materials as well as automotives, places, etc.

This last one's my fave.

Now his most recent body of work, which tackles a much more conceptual based (at least, what I can tell from my perspective) topic seems to have come out of left field.  Or chances are he finally is in a place where he can appropriately express himself outside of mainstream venues that help to pay the bills.  Hell, he probably loves all of it and I'm just being silly.  We'll never know.

The latest in his new series is called "Disassembled," and it is a series of photographs that goes to meticulously take apart old pieces of technology that we've taken for granted and organize them in such a way that it is photo ready right down to the itty bitty washers and pins that hold everything together.  This is definitely a kind of focus and dedication I can understand, and in all seriousness I hope to someday be able to lose myself so completely in my work that what comes as a result are a bunch of tiny minutely detailed pieces of radical awesome.

His work has been examined by DesignBoom , Juxtapoz, Twisted Sifter and LostAtEMinor , sites that I try to visit religiously to seek out what's going on in the art world. ( The last two I just added to my repertoire, and I hope that I'll continue to be intrigued by what I can pull from there.)

What makes this work really stand out is, simply, its precision and attention to detail.  This is an artist who has taken the time to really examine the makeups of what we have used in our world and magnifies the definition by forcing the viewer to really look at everything that makes up what seems to be a very basic mechanized tool for every day use.  Push a button and it works, right?  But do we really think about the textures and details that make the whole for what it is?  Do we really see that?

It's times like these that it helps to just stop, take a minute, breathe and...be.  Just be.