About the Photographer

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=100 BGCOLOR="#660033" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#660033" FACE="Arial" ><B>Art Tract, The Artist's Website </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT> |  <A HREF="arttracthome.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home"><U> </U></A><A HREF="arttracthome.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>________________________________________________________________</B></div> <div> <B>________________________________________________________________</B></div> <div> <B>About the Photographer</B></div> <div> <A HREF="robertsako.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Robert Sako"><U><B>Robert Sako</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Residence: </B><B> </B><B>St. Clairsville, Ohio, USA </B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="15" CELLSPACING="7" WIDTH="420" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#660033" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#BBBBBB > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 803 WIDTH="370"><div> <B>About the Artist</B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >    I have been an artist and art instructor for over twenty years. I currently teach elementary (K-7) art full time at Martins Ferry City Schools in Martins Ferry Ohio. I am also an adjunct instructor of photography, drawing, and design at West Virginia Northern Community College in Wheeling West Virginia. </FONT></div> <div>      I have had exhibitions at Ohio University Eastern, The Grave Creek Mound State Park in Moundsville, West Virginia, and in Wheeling West Virginia at The Wheeling Artisen Center, West Virginia Northern Community College, and at Oglebay Institute's Stifel Fin Arts Center.</div> <div>      I have won awards for my work in drawing, painting, photography, and digital imagery.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Artist's Statement</B></div> <div> My work is an attempt to create a kind of poetic relationship between object and audience using basic visual elements such as textures, patterns, lines, or colors. In some pictures, I try to eliminate, or at least minimize the "fact" of objects. In others, the objects are more important because they have their own stories. In any case, my goal is to make art that will allow the audience an opportunity for exploration through a personal interaction between the viewer and the piece. </div> <div> I do not want to give everything away at a glance. That would make things too easy, and therefore, uninteresting. Art should be read, like a poem, and its audience should find new meanings or emotions with each reading. While this kind of interaction may (and should) require some effort on the part of the viewer, it is my responsibility as the artist to break the ice, to get things started, and to create a first glance impact. Then, hopefully, the dialogue between the art and its audience can begin.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>About the Prints</B></div> <bR> <div>     These Images were captured with both film and digital cameras. They were then manipulated on the computer and or mixed with other media to enhance certain design elements such as line, texture, value etc, so that I might help these objects in their communications with their viewers.  </div> <div> All of my pictures are printed with an Epson Stylus Photo 2000P printer. They are printed on Epson Archival Matt or Epson Professional Watercolor Paper with archival inks. Epson <A HREF="http://www.epson.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.epson.com"><U>http://www.epson.com</U></A> claims that these prints will last approximately one hundred years when displayed under glass in normal lighting conditions.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width=100 BGCOLOR="#660033" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>