Another hack at selecting text to weave narrative. Same book as before (chapter-xxii) but from a different chapter. I actually had to google what or who Erebus was. It was obvious that the word had associations to darkness from its usage but I didn’t know what it actually was. When you read the actual text ...
As part of an altered book project I did a few years back, I glued pages together and then cut away the center of them so that I could make them into ‘frames’ for some of my photographs. It was an attempt to illustrate the book ‘Two Years Before the Mast’ by Richard Henry Dana ...
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my ...
The virtue of waiting,patience the moral good.A most cherished weigh –transient and illegitimate.Cadence given pause,under merit of delay.A nuptial of deception.A meek inheritance.Resource ticking away.A face bears the gaugeDial in merit,and disregard the day.
Welcome to 2021! Can you handle it? The beauty in photography, or one of them for me at least, is that it provides an outlet. It also occupies the mind and can go a long way toward staying in the moment. When my wife was dealing with her cancers, I’d lean on photography as a ...
Abstract visual art often throws a lot of people. Many say things like “I don’t get it”. But if given a choice between two abstract pieces of art with the direction to ‘pick the one that has more appeal for you’, many will see one as more appealing than another. They may not be able ...
They say you shouldn’t dwell too much on ‘what-ifs’ but what if (see what I did there) we examined one for fun? Like those ‘if you were stranded on a desert island with only one book or one song’ kind of ‘what-ifs’, what if you could only photograph one subject from now on; what would ...
The ability to construct things in our mind is one of our greatest assets we have as humans. When we are children, our imagination often gets afforded the agency it deserves. We warrant it to the degree it should be warranted and our parents and teachers point it out as a positive; ‘she has a ...