Olga Campbell and Beryl Woodrow  

“Photoshop Tennis” – Digital Work

Canada

“The pandemic was here. We were asked to stay at home as much as possible. We decided to play photoshop tennis on the computer. Each person starts with a photograph and sends it to the other. The next step is to add something to the image in photoshop and then send it back, like a conversation. This continues until both people feel that the work is finished. It was fun; it was intuitive; it was addictive. It was especially interesting to see what the other person added and then find a response to that. Not only was the process most interesting and stimulating, and the result surprising, it helped us to maintian a connection through art at such an isolating time. 

In this particular series we started with a photograph Beryl shot of an art installation in Japan. As we “talked back and forth”, a narrative began to develop culminating in this totally unexpected image we called “The Scorpion Sisters Wreak Havoc in their New Found Home”. ”

For more information about the artist, check out: www.olgacampbell.com and bawoodrow@shaw.ca