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Kenneth Hayden Kenneth Hayden, 55 Favorite medium: acrylic or oil painting on canvas or panels and digital photography kenhaydenart.net kenhayden.wordpress.com A photographer, painter and former musician, Hayden's work is a refection of his effervescent personality. "If I'm painting images containing birds, they are rarely images about or concerned with ornithology or wildlife or anything. There's metaphor and innuendo at play. If you look with an open mind and allow the work to enter your being, you'll get the message. If art is too easy to read, then it's pablum for the masses. If it makes you a little intrigued or befuddled, without resorting to shock for shock's sake, then it's a good thing." Photography … "is a little more diffcult. You almost can't get away from what is being photographed — the subject dominates the image for the average viewer. So, photographs presented as art have an uphill battle much of the time." "A series of manipulated photographs from Florida I recently created (still under way) sort of lie about what they represent. I make them appear as if they are old, stained or aged "historic" photos. In them, I'm saying that you can't always trust what you've seen or misremembered. I'm very nostalgic about the 1950s and '60s, and the whole Boomer experience of vacations, tourism and memories of lost time. Florida really brings that out in me." From top: "Arch" (ink, watercolor, gouache, gesso on paper); "A Circuitous Route" (acrylic and ink on panel); "Florida Safari, Honeymoon Island Ospreys #1" (archival digital inkjet print). "If I can't choose my music in the painting studio, I can't work. My go-to CDs include Humanistic/Abandoned Pools, The Invisible Band/Travis, Down to Earth/Nektar, Raoul and the Kings of Spain/Tears for Fears, The Golden Age of Wireless/Thomas Dolby, Deep and Cascade/ Peter Murphy and a mix CD I made with the track "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell (incredible when cranked on my Danish speakers), some Porcupine Tree, Blackfeld and R.E.M." 10.13 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 51