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