Intersections Between Language and Photography

are the secrets that project who I am. Today, at least.

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I am contemplating the physical form of secrets. Their essence, were it tangible, if you will.

I believe I will.

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I perceive culture as a collective sensory reflection of any given society’s environment that persists over time while also evolving through time. How culture persists over time involves both learning and teaching directly via formal and informal education. How culture evolves through time is a collective, but indirect response/reflection of how and what information is internalized. What the information comes to mean after internalization is reflected individually through contribution to society, be it an intellectual or artistic reflection. Because it is impossible to remove the individual from interpretation and therefore meaning, culture persists at the same time it evolves—however slowly that may be.

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if it doesn’t make perfect, it at least expands the skill set.

Pieces

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“Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.”

trying to understand is the foothold out of the abyss.

those outlines of my internal conflicts are only slightly transparent, the issue–my issue, the thing that releases the shutter–is less and less defined by the shape of shadows and more so by the fine, fine edges of something luminous. something at odds with human waste and the mark it leaves behind.

where that mark is left, well that is part of my something luminous.

how will i present this, visually?

words come easy, but the mental pixels? well, they’re a bit out of focus. still.

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time must be the thing itself. at this moment in my thought processes, anyway. what if it actually stood still? there wouldn’t be a single thing different–no moment before, or after. isn’t that the concern of the photograph? the split-second in between before and after?

in between

i was thinking of gerhard richter’s oil on canvas “two candles” when photographing the hourglass. perhaps it was the shadow and light of “two candles” that prompted “when” I shot the hourglass–the light and shadow. i don’t recall, now. and it was only yesterday i made the photographs.

i think the hourglass needs to be printed in a landscape orientation to represent the continuum. but, then, the light needs to move vertically. mayhap the light will be good again through the north window today.

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Something hidden

stormy skies wear shades of green reminiscent of childhood skies that swirled with the fierce energy of impending disaster.

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