As I sat in the main gallery of the Techno-Impressionist Museum today I found myself studying the wall with the flowers. Several of the them have a shared quality, all the background information has been removed leaving only the flowers for your eyes to gaze upon. It makes them "pop". That's an expression that Tony and I use when discussing his work. Sometimes this popping is so strong that the picture feels like it's in my head. By that I mean the image remains in front of my eyes even when I am no longer in the same room.

Artists can create from what is in front of their eyes, create from memory and imagination. Objects can be placed in just the right way, lighting created, and then everything can be tweaked until the scene is just so. Or the artist can just use what his eyes see. It's occurred to me that Van Gogh painted quickly especially when he was outside because he only had the daylight hours to finish his work.

And now here comes Tony Karp. His sketch is sometimes before his eyes for only a split second. He captures it and then he starts to create the work.

He does not for example move the flowers or change their position, what he does is make them the focus of the picture by sometimes removing the details around them. He might enhance the lighting by working the hues and the contrasts. Any maybe he crops the image a little, so he can bring you closer to it.

And then Tony can do another thing. He can use technology to show things in the image that perhaps nobody can image at least not yet. He lets the technology do things to the hues, contrasts, shadows and shapes. This is the essence of Techno-Impressionism. The technology becomes Tony's third eye. It allows him to show you things you've never before seen in something that started out as a photograph.