About
Stephen Brownlee
“Photographing a literal subject or subjects, then expanding on it with algorithms, blend modes, layers, symmetry and fractal, allows the stochastic process of randomness and uncertainty to evolve.”
Stephen Brownlee (b. 1949), the second son of Atlanta artist Ernest Leroy Brownlee and
attended Atlanta Tech and received a license to work on aircraft. During his five year stint in the Air Force, he was stationed in Thailand and Vietnam, and after discharge from the service, he was accepted to the Atlanta College of Art. Although he worked as a manager in the food service industry until his recent retirement, throughout his career Brownlee has continued “keeping up with his craft” and has served as lab manager and instructor at the Serenbe Photography Center as well as taking part in several juried, group and solo shows in Georgia.
Artist Statment
Working with symmetry and fractal the stochastic process is invoked were the concept of uncertainty or chance brings about the evolution of entities, that is the very nature of panpsychism. Consciousness is stirred by the creator and absorbed by the viewer.
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Panpsychism – The doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness.
Stochastic – a variable process where the outcome involves some randomness and has some uncertainty.
STEPHEN PITTMAN BROWNLEE 