“Glissando”
24 x 16"
Limited edition 1/5
SOLD yesterday to NYC collectors. Thanks Big 🍎!
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I don’t photograph things; I photograph only the difference between things, often with several layers of meaning. The veil in “The Cellist” series offers an illusion of a barrier/threshold and movement of wind energy, musical expression and the beginnings and ends of shadow, light and darkness.

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#contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporaryartists #fineartphotography #contemporarypainting #creativelife #artoftheday #contemporaryartcurator #fineartphotography #bostonartist #bostonart #bosarts #bostonartscene #bostondotcom #artnewengland #davidleeblack #artscopemagazine #artgallery #sowaboston

The desire to be loved is the last illusion:
​give it up and you will be free.


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#Wishbzne
#freedom
#blackandwhite
#framed
#passage
#threshold
#barrier
#completefreedomorcompletlylost

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.
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This photograph was taken at the Galatea Fine Art Gallery with poet/model Marie Michaelle interacting with the superb artwork of Marsha Nouritza Odabashian


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#AliceWaker
#poet
#model
#fineartphotography
#modellife
#fashion
#blackandwhite
#style
#heart
#davidleeblack

I don’t understand the process of imagination—though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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#portrait #portraiture #bnwmood #bnwportraits #bwportraiture #bwportraitphotography #portraitphotography  #portrait_vision #fashion #style #modelsearch #Heller #portrait #portraitphoto #portraiture #symmetryhunters #bellydancer #dancephotography #theuniversalart #ourmoodydays #artofvisuals #herstories  #davidleeblack

​When a comfort level is reached in terms of style, how can you break out of it?
For me, it was finding other influences in places where I haven’t looked before including working with a new medium at high temperatures.


The resulting effort has proved beneficial by learning that “Vertebrae” was juried into the exhibition “2020” in the Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery at Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts.


As of March 4, the virtual exhibition will be available at this link: wsuvpagallery.weebly.com
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Vertebrae
18 x 34”
$1300
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Gutting a grand piano and baking the white keys at 475 degrees for 20 minutes to combine them with a single ebony key was a journey into what it may feel like to be black in white spaces. 
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#sculptureart #art #newenglandartist #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporaryartists #sculpture #creativelife #artoftheday #contemporaryartcurator #instaart ##americanartcollector #artnewengland #assemblage #foundobjectart #artscopemagazine #artgallery #americanart #davidleeblack #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #blackinwhitespaces

Her eyes spoke fluently . . .
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From a #creatingyourvision #photography workshop in Cambridge, Ma with model/artist Phoenix Aviary.
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#bwportraitphotography #portraitphotography  #portrait_vision #portraitmode #portraitart #fashion #style #modelsearch  #portraitstream #portraitsociety #portraitfolk #portrait central #portraitartist #justgoshoot #faces #portraitcollective #portraits_ig #portrait #portraitphoto #portraiture #symmetrykillers #visualambassadors #artofvisuals #herstory ​

she was dressed in black.
And when she moved
she moved to a beat
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The late winter and spring calendar is beginning to fill with scheduled shoots. Are You one of them?
Inquire within?
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#portrait #portraits #portraitmood #portraitphotography #portrait_vision #portrait_ig #portrait_mood #portrait_mf #portrait_perfection #portraitvision_ #artphotography #artphoto #personaltrainer #boudoir #muah #veil #freewill #photoshoot #blackandwhite #fitnesstrainer #davidleeblack #nowputyourphonedown

Stepping out of my comfort zone has its dividends as I am thrilled to learn that “Excess” won second place for the 6th Juried Photography Exhibition with juror Antonio McAfee at the Rehobeth Beach Art League, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. 
Exhibition runs through March 7, 2021
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“Excess . . .”
20 x 29 1/2”
photography
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What is overstimulation? How does it affect our lives? Our saturated bodies and brains are being fed more information that they can actively process and it is hurting us. Exploring the drenching excesses in our busy lives such as screen time, religious and political issues, relationships and possessions often mean for many people, a good life is about more. Perhaps a good life is about less . . .
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#roadtrip #kerouac
#Excess #davidleeblack #fineartphotography #blackandwhite #outofcomfortzone
#Delawarearts #galleryexhibition
#decklededge #blackadnwhitephotography

How much time is lost when we hear a notification ping, have a desire to check email, scroll endlessly which diverts our attention from our original goals?
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#fragmentedattention
#whatisthecost
#neuroreminder
#dopamine
#emotonialcost
#timepoverty
#wewanttofeel
#makeportraits
#musicianphotography
#diminishedreturn
#anxietycomponent
#feelingofurgency
#wearebeinggamed
#freewill

"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."


Charles Dickens / Great Expectations