Melancholy Undercurrent

Living counterpoint
Experience immediacy
Present moment

Pause and appreciate unfolding phenomena.

“All the wonders of nature are miracles.” – Richard Brautigan

Portal to the Infinite

Intimate texture
Dialectical image
Past present fused

No longer passive observers of a landscape, we are active participants in a dialogue with the ephemeral and the eternal.

“The smallest detail … can be the opening to a world.” – Walter Benjamin

Single Continuum

Striated forms
Smooth becomings
Complex tableau

The metal stand striates the smooth glass plate, carving out a territory and marking it as distinct from the rest of the world.

“The smooth has no form, or rather, it is the form of the formless, the line of flight that tears across forms and territories.” – Gilles Deleuze

Currituck Banks Coastal Estuarine Reserve

Barrier spit
Natural shoaling
Brackish marsh

Water levels shift with the wind, direction and intensity are major forces affecting the water levels of Currituck Sound, as opposed to the lunar tides.

“This is a beautiful place to watch the sunset over the water with a nice area to sit and take in the view.” – Andrew Ruetz

Inflorescences

Winter bloom
Fragrant yellow
Multiple plumes

Even on the darkest winter day, mahonia flowers light up their surroundings like banks of fluorescent tubes.

“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon

A Hull

Stern view
Out of water
On jack-screws

A deep v-shaped boat featuring red and reflective black surfaces is under repair.

“We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.” – Anna Freud

Gilded Finery

Meaning dances
Liminal space
Form and flow

Within the stillness of the golden head, a storm of becoming rages.

“The head is not the brain.” – Gilles Deleuze

Arrested Motion

Cascading water
Din of descent
Time current

A waterfall is contemplation invitation to consider the interplay of stillness and flow, permanence and transience.

“The image is a motionless capture of the mobile.” – Roland Barthes

At Various Times

Christmas lights
Milkshake blender
Off season

Tourist traps, those honey pots on the travel map, pulsate with a peculiar magnetism.

“Tourism is the industry that destroys what it pretends to cherish” – Eduardo Galeano

Threshold

Spaces we inhabit
Points of transition
Masking tape

As Gaston Bachelard writes in The Poetics of Space, “Every door is the guardian of a passage.”

“The Photograph … forces the eye to question, to analyze, to establish relations, to create stories.” – Roland Barthes

End of content

No more pages to load