Rotorua Lakefront double exposure Photography with Jing Pan and Janet Keen.

Photographic Genetic Engineering  surrealistic Series because
what is in my imagination is always preferable to what is happening in  my reality. 

All photographs are copyright and for sale. 
If you would like to order photos, payment is only through transferring money into my bank account or bank cheque. 
 I  am looking into setting up an online shop if demand increases. 
Galleries in New Zealand feel free to offer me some exhibiting opportunities. 
Feel free to email me jkeen@clear.net.nz  
Scammers don't bother enquiring because I am onto you. 

Wharf in front of Sea Scout hall crossed with paint texture

goose crossed with paint and
flaking texture on Scout Hall 

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swan crossed with Janet 
wharf slippery with duck poo
tread carefully or fall in

 Autumn leaf swirl crossed 
with Swan in oily water

Janet on top of swan
oily water laps

Swan looms on  top  of Jing 
in the gloom

A paint bomb is dropped on Jing and swan by giant unseen seagull
 or maybe it's a  bomb or  loose firecracker?  

 Geese, Jing and giant graffiti caused by manipulated Autumn leaves on a tainted background

Different colour wave of above 

 Peaceful, protective, giant geese and Jing on wharf at Rotorua Lake front near scout hall 

 Ghostly, protective swan  God and Janet celebrating the abundance of the universe.

Creative Quote of the day 

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised

 that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to 


me is reality. John Lennon

Mosaic and Painting classes 9.30am to 11.30am 
Monday, Tuesday Wednesday and Friday mornings. 
Email jkeen@clear.net.nz jkeen@clear.net. 
or phone  0273513887 or 073463435
to book your boutique experience in my artists studio with lots of examples for inspiration. 
Enrolling now for after school painting, mosaic, English as a second language/art classes. 
Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons from 3.30pm to 5.00pm 
One hour classes. 
Small classes
Patient, imaginative and supportive, qualified teacher. 
Look forward to hearing from you today:) 

Group  and school inquiries welcome. 

Photos of Janet Keen by Jing Pan at the Tree Trust Japanese Garden, Rotorua in Autumn

Melting Moments1.

Melting Moments 2

Melting Moments 3

Melting Moments 4

Melting Moments 5

Melting Moments 6

Melting Moments 7

Melting Moments 8

Melting Moments 9

Melting Moments 10

Melting Moments 11

Lesson Plan

Which one do you like best. Write to jkeen@clear.net.nz and tell me. 
 
Go with a friend in the morning to a country location and take shots of each other by moving your camera quickly. 
See what beautiful melting moments you can have.

Cracked thermal Earth, double Exposure Photography, Rotorua New Zealand, Janet Keen Fine Art Photographer.

These abstract, fine art prints are originals by Janet Keen. 

 No two are the same.

Embedded in them are images of people.

You can have your own special abstract image with silhouettes of yourself or your family or pet embedded

They are explorations of Humanbeings being part of the landscape, dissolving into it and working with it, instead of dominating it. 

They are images that ask us to be gentle on the earth and to treasure it and let it breathe. 

Colours are designed to go with your decor and favourite colour scheme

Notifications by galleries in New Zealand to exhibit my photographic Fine Art work are welcome 

All images are signed and dated on the back

All Photographs are copyrite

You can have works with as little or many cracks as you like, there's something quite fragile about cracks and in their way they can be quite haunting and beautiful. Ambiguity makes things more mysterious, less obvious, more intelligent and interesting. 
Abstract work allows to the viewer to bring their interpretations into the work, which is just as valid. 
 I am in love with abstracts. 

Overseas queries welcome

Write to me at jkeen@clear.net.nz and tell me which one you like best. 
See more on my Janet Keen Artist facebook page


Haiku with double 

shags silhouetted  
waiting for the mist to clear 
fishermen whisper

chinese girl takes aim
mist hiding her face from me
chinese whispering 

there are three girls here
or is it  one girl ghosted
can't tell in the gloom 

cracked earth engulfs her
she disappears like the mist
chinese whispering


What is haiku? A three lined poem of Japanese derivation. 
Often talking about a moment in time. 
Sometimes having syllable cont of 5, 7, 5, but not necessarily. 

Go out, take some photos and write some haiku to them.
 Send me your results. Good luck, 
See how happy you feel when you have finished because writing haiku is like meditating.  

Creative Quote of the Day
“Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is 

the deep breath of life.” 

 
― Santōka Taneda, Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
 


All photographs for sale. 
Price depending on size. 
Phone 3463435 or email jkeen@clear.net.nz for details. 

Kuirau Park, Rotorua Double Exposure Photos with Jing, taken by Janet Keen, Art Photographer.

 

My friend Jing and I often go on Photographic Safari's together.

  

This was one Autumn morning in Kuirau Park, Rotorua

I first discovered this special, secret spot  when I was riding my bike with my husband

 

I knew Jing would like it because it's so mysterious and eerie; not the sort of place you would want to hang out by yourself.

  

The steam wafts over in billowing bursts, engulfing, you lose sight of the person standing right next to you.

You feel alone yet together

The sun shafts into your back casting your shadow into the close misty screen. 

They  waltz, ghosts  swirling in the  air.

 
 I dissolve. 
I could be on a moon scape or in Japan after a nucleur explosion
My breath  laboured and  laden with intoxicating sulphur odour. 

 

The manuka all piney.   It's feather fingers caress your hands as you brush past.  

Thermal water underneath the bridge seeps into the soles of your shoes,warming, turning them rubbery and malleable.

Mist wraps around you like an alpaca blanket.

 Or encased in a silk caterpiller's cacoon.

 

 Algae blooms in the surging water. 

 The plop  of bubbling mud pools splutter

 

One false step and you would be boiled alive in this witches couldron

 

Double exposure photography allows  layers and colours into scenes making them surreal and slippery like a Dali painting 

Ambiguity is freedom, allowing you to travel into your imagination

The Kurau park secret spot is the departure point into another mysterious, sinister and surprising world. 

Get lost in it and see how you have changed once you come in from the other side. 
Do you feel more alive or closer to death?  

Activity 
Go for a walk. Take some photos. You can use your phone camera if you don't have a DSLR
 Manipulate them into surreal colours and write some haiku and poetry  about them. 
Opportunites for haiku are all around you. 
Take time out now. 
It's  great way to bring peace into your world.

Creative Quote of the day

“my love is a winter’s mist
 
gently dissolving
 
through the window
 
at the nape of your neck.” 
 
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

Book a haiku and photography workshop with me.
 Group or school enquiries welcome Phone 346-3435
 or email jkeen@clear.net.nz . 
Prices on application.