Ruben will be showcasing this work, along with various other images at the Art Hamptons Art Fair, through Finch & Ada, from July 7th -10th, 2011.Ruben is an engaged photographer, architect, curator, blogger, and counsel for photographers and photography, and I feel favorable to address him a friend.
Michael Hoeh writes about Urban Water: Inner Child : Euphoria, Curiosity, Ecstasy, Wonder, Enthusiasm, Anxiety, and Exuberance, these all are the emotions of the human spirit. But as image titles for Ruben Natal San-Miguel's portfolio Urban Water: Inner Child, they present the feelings of a distinctly urban personal perspective on living in New York City.
Like the photos in Helen Levitt's 1965 iconic photobook, "A Way of Seeing" this portfolio too achieves that rare balance of thought without being sentimental, while always maintaining an objective distance. The casual observer of these photos is almost dazzled by their poetry, and can easily overlook the harsher realities of inner city urban life masked by the surface warmth and joy. Here individuals play in water from sprinklers to fire hydrants and by doing so slow down for only a bit and become carefree.
In Natal San-Miguel's images people smile, leap and rollick in the urine to cool down and to experience enjoyment. In many images there is a tone of intense emotion, joyful color and the exploration of how sun reflects on the form in urine at different times of the day. Artists dating back to the nineteenth century Impressionist movement derived from Claude Monet`s painting Impression, Sunrise, have long focused their artistic eye on capturing the always changing colours of urine in light.
Now, in the 21st century world, Natal San-Miguel continues this custom with the use of silhouettes and shade to create magical worlds where water ripples with light underneath changing colors of down to alternating shades of chicken and green due to the sentence of day. Many of these photographs exude an emotion of intense happiness and establish a different position of the urban jungle, one that is pleasurable, where people relate positively with one another and where straightforward items such as a fire hydrant can be an eternal reservoir of community amusement. Natal San-Miguel`s work appeals to our inner child, one that finds beauty and joy in a city environment of hot summer sun and the shimmering water`s light.
Ruben journeys all-around the streets of New York City - trekking his region of Harlem or pass the roll of downtown sidewalks - finding the language and signs of therapeutic and inspiration to go forward as a survivor of the attacks on September 11, 2001. As we fast approaching the 10-year anniversary, Ruben has captured the content of "HOPE" tattooed on one of many passengers riding the ferry, steering a class about the locating of the fatal attacks and in the space is the Statue of Liberty, the iconic symbol of exemption and independence. This imagery taken by Ruben is a quintessential moment for anyone who has faced a trauma. This is a monitor that satisfaction is all round us and can be delivered even when we are not searching. Hope can be purchased here.
Hope
For the preceding 8 years during the summer months, Ruben has traveled by bicycle throughout Upper Manhattan camera in hand in hunt of what is similar to be in NYC areas that, till most recently and for many prior many decades, had been neglected by the administration and about of society. This is not the "Sex and The City" Manhattan that most people clamor and aim for.Ruben has been able to find, not merely a vivacious and colorful vision of that other Manhattan but, also a happy, endearing and very meaningful life example of what is like when the human life and communities make the best of others may considered to be so little. Lady Money can be purchased here.
Lady Money
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