Aaron Siskind Chicago 224, 1953

This image exemplifies the artist’s virtuosity and his socialist leanings. His defiance of three-dimensional perspective is depicted by a sense of depth with the words ” I want  a raise,” floating over the receding background surfaces. 

Homage to Aaron Siskind by Gerardo Francisco

I see layered scribblings of different strokes and scratches on the surface that seems to give a sense of harmony to an otherwise chaotic configuration.

 

 

 

Aaron Siskind Martha’s Vineyard, 1954

“Inner pleadings- often unconscious- guided much of Siskind’s work. He was answering such a pleading when he began photographing rock walls in 1950.  The pictures, he said, were about ‘this whole business of contiguity’- the proximity and dependence of community”… by James Louis Rhem

Homage to Aaron by Gerardo Francisco

Each piece of rock has its own way of contributing to its solidity and strength.  Every stone does not have a role to play without the stone alongside it to give it meaning and purpose.

Aaron Siskind Rome 135, 1977

Aaron allows blured motion to  illustrate the transcience of the paint markings and shadows of endless time.

Aaron Siskind Rome 135, 1977

 

Homage to Aaron by Gerardo Francisco

Time passes like a blur when workers rush to go about their business in the hustle and bustle of New York

Homage to Aaron by Gerry Francisco

Aaron Siskind The Tree 35, 1973

 The trees in the works of Aaron Siskind symbolize life’s changing qualities in endless time.

Homage to Aaron by Gerardo Francisco

I see two branches, lovers if you will, in a everlasting embrace that only time can tell when it will end.

Aaron Siskind Jerome Arizona, 1949

Peeled chips, cracked paint…what  happened to suppleness and vitality?  It is now time for renewal after a time of decay.

 

 

Homage to Aaron by Gerardo Francisco

Each vertical layer of wood shows varying degrees of chipped paint from the right to  the left sides of the frame like advancing moments of time in a continual cycle of decay and renewal.