Photographer Ted Smith captures repetitive geometric shapes forming an undulating star pattern

Ted Smith

"The Fourth", gelatin silver print (20" x 16"), 1990

Seattle, WA - "Having M.S. has forced me to try to develop more patience. I focus my time and energy only on those things which I feel are most central to my vision as an artist...My work is concerned with the parts of larger systems and their fitness for each other."

Theodore Smith remarks that the artistic process - creating works, reflecting on theory, and enjoying the works of others - is central to his life and identity. This focus is reflected both in Smith's photography and painting. The hard edge process evident throughout Smith's work, allows for clarity and definition within a complexity of image. Most recently, Smith finds himself working increasingly and concerned with more personal geometric possibilities.

" I suspect that the passion that fuels the drive to make art is not something that is learned or that can be taught. After all, how could an individual be trained to feel so strongly about something that usually offers so little monetary reward, and promises nothing but uncertainty? I have little doubt that wanting to devote one's life to art-making is more closely related to some hereditary bias than to a conscious career choice. From the earliest cave paintings through the twentieth century, art has served to make difficult times more understandable and thus more bearable for those of us who will let it help."

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