Philip Keppel — Digital Artist — Los Angeles, California & Tavira, Portugal
Artist Statement
These images begin as photographs — personal snapshots, archival documents, stock imagery, found moments. Through digital transformation they become something else entirely. The source material is real. What emerges from it is something harder to name.
The working method is deliberate collision. Personal memory meets historical record. The domestic meets the monumental. The ordinary is forced into conversation with the extraordinary until something unexpected becomes visible.
The result is a body of work about what gets passed forward — joy, labor, history, grief, obliviousness, hope, broken things, beautiful things, things that refuse to stay buried. About what we hand to each other across time without always meaning to.
No image here is what it first appears to be. That gap between appearance and reality is where the work lives.
Artist
Philip Keppel
Location
Los Angeles, California
Available For
Exhibition — Gallery Representation — Print Sales