In that time, David has come to understand that whenever the left side of the brain makes an attempt, albeit a profoundly lucid and educated one, to analyze and describe what the right side of the brain does and why it does it, it will, as a rule, completely miss its mark.

David Colon takes pictures because they present themselves to him and, having presented themselves, he is compelled to make the photograph. He works in black and white as well as color. While David does not openly seek out a subject, he does follow a train of thought. By this, David means that he tends to work in series of pictures. Each series is another portfolio.

David Colon’s art has been exhibited in several galleries and a piece is currently displayed in the Morris Graves Museum in Eureka, Ca.

The photographers whose work most influenced David are Paul Strand, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Aaron Siskind, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Minor White, Wright Morris and too many others to name. They freed themselves from the status quo and in thus doing, redefined the esthetics of photography.

With regard to David’s photography, he can only say this: “I have long since learned that the images that meant the most to me were the ones with which I had an emotional connection. Whether the subject was a flower, a brick wall, or an anchor, it was my emotional and not my intellectual response to it that led to images that felt both alive and dynamic. We all have an intellectual response to art, but it is the emotions we feel when viewing a painting, sculpture or photograph, that burns the deepest within our psyches. Art without emotions is mathematics.”