Jim Macbeth
Digital Scanographer, St. Augustine
My art draws closely from my life experiences as a marine biologist and museum curator, but mostly from my appreciation of nature’s amazing grace. When you see the dazzling beauty of fish scales or butterfly wings from the right perspective, it’s as if you’re seeing them through a child’s eyes for the first time.
Sometimes I combine living creatures with man-made objects or text in ways that stimulate and provoke the viewer’s imagination. In a sense, I‘m a beachcomber of the digital age - I work with specimens and artifacts that I find in real life, then capture and interpret them with the help of a high-resolution digital scanner and imaging software.
I believe art is something that happens - and you never know what exactly is going to happen until you reach a moment when you see the image in front of you that you have been searching for all along.
