John Opera's images all have a similar visual and conceptual theme that ties them together. And while looking at his images you might not be able to immediately see how they all fit together, with a little bit of studying i starts to come together. I found his use placing abstractions and landscapes together on the same page to be a very interesting way of displaying work. Not only does it make you look at the abstractions in a different context but allows the viewer to draw similarities between the pieces. "Interior abstraction" and "Untitled (Shed II)" have similar compositions, color and tone, forcing me to think about them in relation to each other. In a gallery he displays all the different types of images mixed up, again playing on context. Images that could easily be in completely different bodies of work are all shown at once creating a strange story like melody that makes the viewer draw their own conclusions.
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