The Camera and The Rose

From The Rose

I have long maintained that photographers capture more than the light in the room. There is an exchange between the subject and the artist behind the lens- the image is reflective of what it is receiving.

Light is an artifact, the image a gift.

This work involves capturing energies through a lens. For the last ten years I have documented the highlights of passing days; the messages in snow, images in smoke, spirits in running water.

Smoke is the Four Elements, Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire, and space, Akasha in flow, in the act of becoming.

As light enters and energizes the smoke it ignites a delicate and mutable medium of expression. In the one-point perspective of the lens images coalesce from within a holographic spectrum, as real-time experience is converted to a static two-dimensional rendering. One where a graphic convergence is possible, compressed into the flattened, planar rendition of a print.

In seeing these images, the whole of the space comes into play. In combination with our own insight, this complex challenges us to another level of perception, a different way of looking at photographs,

and of knowing.

Like the waking rose, these appearances affirm that the continuum is still unfolding, that the work is being done, an acknowledgment of our place in the story of fully awakening to this life

and beyond.