Photographs Not Taken
Astute readers may have noticed that not too many new blog entries have appeared here in the last few weeks. The reason, as always, is due to the constraints imposed on my life outside of photography (the side that pays most of my family's bills, by fa...
What Else a Thing Is
Since the beginning of the year, I have posted about a dozen and a half images from a (still evolving) portfolio with the tentative title Synesthetic Landscapes. The concept for this portfolio actually dates back to Thanksgiving 2009 (which my family a...
Symbolic Omniscience
"The basic characteristic of any artistic expression is the ordering of a visual impression into a coherent, complete, living form. The difference between a mere expression, however intense and revealing, and an artistic image of that expression, lies ...
Poetics of Space
"House, patch of meadow, oh evening lightSuddenly you acquire an almost human faceYou are very near us,embracing and embraced."- RAINER MARIA RILKE"Our house is our corner of the universe... it is our universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the ...
Transcendent Order
"When we say that order is transcendent, we mean to say that somehow, the order makes contact with some other reality, or some other 'something,' which lies outside of and beyond our normal experience. We need a word for this something. It is hard &nbs...
Transcendental Mirrors
"Bodies of still water arethemselves like minds;transcendental mirrors, Platonic camerasto catch and hold the phenomenological long enough for the onlooker to grasp its reality,the eternal thing behind it."- David Mason GreeneThe Frail D...
On Seeing
"The child has to learn how to separate out the images which assail the newly-opened retina... a whole series of 'senses' are necessary... A sense of spatial immensity, in its greatness and in its smallness, disarticulating and spacing out, within...
Music of the Eyes
"What prohibits me from treating my perception as an intellectual act is that an intellectual act would grasp the object either as possible or as necessary. But in perception it is 'real'; it is given as the infinite sum of an indefinite series of pers...
Celestial Melodies
"...above all, I perceive in me with joy, a new tone, sounded by a violin within my innermost being. Its strings are tensed or relaxed through simple differences of temperature and illumination from without. Yet from deep with our being (an instrument ...
Illumination and Purification
"The outcome is this...the whole conscious being is open to spiritual experiences of every kind. It turns toward spiritual truth in thought, feeling, perception, and action; it is adjusted to respond rightly... The second thing is the free influx of al...
Hermeneutic Mysteries
"I see photography as an extraordinary means to undertake an exegesis of the Real, prompted by the first and literal level: the image of the evident objects. Any subsequent new meanings are discovered and rendered manifest through a hermeneutic pr...
Appearances and Consciousness
"The order and regularityof the appearances,which we entitle nature,we ourselves introduce.We could never find themin appearances,had we not ourselves,or the nature of our mind,originally set them there."Immanuel KantCritique of Pure Reason"Cosmic Cons...
