About
the Artist
In his new
exhibit entitled ‘Eventide:
Images from the Edge,’ Kenneth Ramsley brings extensive
space-based camera design and image processing experience to his art
As a Visiting Investigator in the Division of Engineering at Brown University, Mr. Ramsley mentors and lectures on topics related to advanced spacecraft design and orbital mechanics. Prior to this, he was Chief Engineer overseeing electronics, software, and optical engineering for a maker of earth orbiting micro satellites, including five spacecraft presently on orbit with significant design content from Mr. Ramsley.
At various other times Mr. Ramsley pursues creative pastimes ranging from amateur telescope making and model rocketry to storytelling and the design of 3D interactive video games. Yet the pastime most central to his creative vision has always been photography—or what Mr. Ramsley calls quantum art for its reference to the quantum nature of light and the numeric elements of digital imaging.
“For the Eventide exhibit I’ve combined the science of orbital map-making with everyday digital camera imaging methods,” Mr. Ramsley explains. “In theory there’s nothing new - physics is physics - yet some of these combinations are unique and many have never been tried in traditional photography or in space science.
What is the hardest part? – “A simple temptation,” says Mr. Ramsley.
“At the cutting-edge of image processing and printmaking I face defeat in every decision I make, and the temptation is to avoid this defeat—to play it safe along a winding path of conventional wisdom. Yet the truest path of creative vision is straight, and the solution is to plow this path on a line—trusting my experience and intuition as I seek an unimpeachable result. In the end I never reach perfection, but I often overstep my expectations. And that is good enough."
In his new
exhibit entitled ‘Eventide:
Images from the Edge,’ Kenneth Ramsley brings extensive
space-based camera design and image processing experience to his artAs a Visiting Investigator in the Division of Engineering at Brown University, Mr. Ramsley mentors and lectures on topics related to advanced spacecraft design and orbital mechanics. Prior to this, he was Chief Engineer overseeing electronics, software, and optical engineering for a maker of earth orbiting micro satellites, including five spacecraft presently on orbit with significant design content from Mr. Ramsley.
At various other times Mr. Ramsley pursues creative pastimes ranging from amateur telescope making and model rocketry to storytelling and the design of 3D interactive video games. Yet the pastime most central to his creative vision has always been photography—or what Mr. Ramsley calls quantum art for its reference to the quantum nature of light and the numeric elements of digital imaging.
“For the Eventide exhibit I’ve combined the science of orbital map-making with everyday digital camera imaging methods,” Mr. Ramsley explains. “In theory there’s nothing new - physics is physics - yet some of these combinations are unique and many have never been tried in traditional photography or in space science.
What is the hardest part? – “A simple temptation,” says Mr. Ramsley.
“At the cutting-edge of image processing and printmaking I face defeat in every decision I make, and the temptation is to avoid this defeat—to play it safe along a winding path of conventional wisdom. Yet the truest path of creative vision is straight, and the solution is to plow this path on a line—trusting my experience and intuition as I seek an unimpeachable result. In the end I never reach perfection, but I often overstep my expectations. And that is good enough."
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