Various surfaces
Customary course
Traces a path
A multiple exposure is centered on an isolated backlit tree.
“The object of the glance, in other words, is not an object at all; the glance deals with the surfaces of things.” – Susan M. Bredlau
Early morning
Across field
Organization
There is much opportunity presented whenever an artist travels to a new venue.
“I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit.” – Rebecca Solnit
Impression integrity
Made by manifold
Natural objects
Changing conditions ensure aesthetic potential.
“Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rich notion
Sense experience
Active qualities
A moody view reveals itself when looking into the mystical forest up-hill from the lake.
“Vision is already inhabited by a meaning (sens) which gives it a function in the spectacle of the world and in our existence.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Come along
Morning dance
Across the street
In another province and time, just outside the window, phenomenal appearance manifests.
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” – Roald Dahl
Chisel run pond
Snowy Egret
Flyover
A special place of repeated visit.
“Earth has no sorrow that earth cannot heal.” – John Muir
Catch the mist
Time has come
Ramble on
Some landscapes seem otherworldly.
“Mine’s a tale that can’t be told, my freedom I hold dear; How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air.” – Robert Plant
Critical observation
Translation form
Spatialization
A very old and monumental tree has room to spread out.
“The self-movement of the work is, rather, genuinely part of its being, and this movement is manifested in its rhythm.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Rooted in experience
Perceptual knowledge
Merely an inquiry
A long hike is rewarded with a sudden appearance of forest beauty.
“Our theme is the coherence of the known, and the perplexity which we are unravelling is as to what it is that is known.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Resolvable elements
Drawn consequences
Mutually dependent
A tributary runs through low-level marsh land on its way to the sea.
“Experience pure and simple shows us the interdependence of the mental and the physical, the necessity of a certain cerebral substratum for the psychical state—nothing more.” – Henri Bergson