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
A resident of Ashland, Massachusetts, Mr. Ramsley is Chief Engineer overseeing electronics, software, and optical engineering for a maker of earth orbiting micro satellites headquartered in Virginia. Flight components developed by Mr. Ramsley include power systems, radios, star-trackers, mapping cameras, and high data rate space-to-ground laser communications.
During the academic year, Mr. Ramsley mentors students at Brown University in advanced spacecraft design as a Visiting Investigator in the Division of Engineering. And at various other times he 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 present day digital imaging.
“For this exhibit I’ve been combining the science of astronomical imaging with everyday processing methods,” Mr. Ramsley explains. “In some ways there’s nothing new, yet some of the combinations are unique and many have never been tried in traditional photography or in science.
What is the hardest part? – “A simple temptation,” says Mr. Ramsley.
“At the cutting-edge of this sort of technology I face defeat in every decision, and the temptation is to avoid that defeat—to play it safe along a winding path of conventional wisdom. Yet the true 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.”
“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 artA resident of Ashland, Massachusetts, Mr. Ramsley is Chief Engineer overseeing electronics, software, and optical engineering for a maker of earth orbiting micro satellites headquartered in Virginia. Flight components developed by Mr. Ramsley include power systems, radios, star-trackers, mapping cameras, and high data rate space-to-ground laser communications.
During the academic year, Mr. Ramsley mentors students at Brown University in advanced spacecraft design as a Visiting Investigator in the Division of Engineering. And at various other times he 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 present day digital imaging.
“For this exhibit I’ve been combining the science of astronomical imaging with everyday processing methods,” Mr. Ramsley explains. “In some ways there’s nothing new, yet some of the combinations are unique and many have never been tried in traditional photography or in science.
What is the hardest part? – “A simple temptation,” says Mr. Ramsley.
“At the cutting-edge of this sort of technology I face defeat in every decision, and the temptation is to avoid that defeat—to play it safe along a winding path of conventional wisdom. Yet the true 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.”
“I never reach perfection, but I often overstep my expectations. And that is good enough.”
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