A Blurred Path Toward Clarity
"To be an artist is not a matterof making paintings or objects at all.What we are really dealing withis our state of consciousnessand the shape of our perception." — Robert Irwin, Artist/Theorist (1929 - )It has been quite a while since my last blog...
Morrison House Photography Talk
I am delighted to announce an upcoming slide presentation in Alexandria, VA, 6:00 to 8:00 pm on August 2 (Tuesday). The talk will be given at Alexandria's historic Morrison House (116 South Alfred Street, Alexandria, VA 22314) and is sponsored by the T...
Solitary Patterns
"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary." — Gabriel Garcia MarquezAuthor (1927 - )
Evidence of Mutability
"Through falling from its previous function, and thus outliving the use originally conferred upon it, the ruin transgresses and subverts our everyday encounter with space and place. In the space of order and regulation, boundaries are delimited and lin...
"Straining to win the sky…"
"The tree is morethan first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force strainingto win the sky." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry(1900 - 1944)"The tree which movessome to tears of joyis in the eyes of...
Emancipation of Mind
"Abstraction is real,probably more real than nature.I prefer to see with closed eyes."- Joseph Albers (1888 - 1976)"Abstraction allows man to seewith his mind what he cannotphysically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artistto perceive beyo...
"Photographing the Photographer" Diptychs
"The universe as we know itis a joint product of theobserver and the observed.”- Teilhard de ChardinPhilosopher / Mystic(1881 - 1955)While looking over some old photos (going back to trips to Scotland in 2009 and Greece in 2008), I ran across an int...
It’s Not About the Images
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. - Dorothea Lange(1895 - 1965)"Writing is not about w...
Quiet Mind
"Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb."- Pythagoras“Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” - Hans MargoliusAphorisms on ethics (1955)
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
"There is simply no real separation line,only an intellectual one,between the object and its time-environment. They are completely interlocking: nothing can exist in the world independent of all the other things in the world."- Robert IrwinArtist (1928...
