Conquer distance
Permanence change
Ephemeral dance
The true subject of photography, and perhaps of all art, is not the object itself, but the human experience, the ever-evolving dialogue between the self and the world.
“One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.” – Minor White
Light harnessed
Time captured
Creative impulse
In this act of seeing, we come to understand that photography is not just a way of capturing the world, but a way of capturing ourselves.
“The past is carried forward in the funded present.” – John Dewey
Sensation locus
Idea manifestation
Material form
This wooden figure incarnates the archetype of the ranger, the guardian of nature, through the simplified, almost primitive form of the doll.
“The work of art is a world, but a world in which mystery is not abolished.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Solar system
Cosmic levitation
Incongruity
A semiotic artifact invites us to engage in a process of interpretation.
“I’m not disillusioned. I’m just not illusioned, either.” – Bob Dylan
Indeterminate space
Sense of liminality
State of flux
The hangers are not fixed entities, but rather manifestations of an underlying spiritual activity, a ceaseless process of creation and dissolution.
“Art is expression of impressions, not expression of expressions.” – Benedetto Crocea
Relentless sun
Ephemeral forms
Fleeting instant
A tapestry woven by the threads of time, each moment is a stitch in the grand design.
“The eternal recurrence is the heaviest burden to bear. But it is also the greatest gift. It makes everything light, everything beautiful, everything sacred.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Metaphysical undercurrent
Pulsates beneath
The surface
The chairs, sculpted from a material that appears both solid and translucent, possess an uncanny quality, a sense of being caught between states of being.
“Understanding is a response to a sign with signs… Understanding is to take not a point of view, but a position in the ongoing dialogue.” – Mikhail Bakhtin
Row of empty arms
Waiting for something
To hold
Metaphysics is about seeing the unseen, hearing the unheard, knowing that even in emptiness there’s something there.
“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” – Bob Dylan
Distillation selection
Salient features
Manufactured entity
Our cognitive capacities far exceed the limited input we receive from the environment.
“It’s not that I have any evidence that I’m right, but it’s not that other people have any evidence that they’re right either.” – Noam Chomsky
Visual syntax
Contingent nature
Temporal entity
The logic of aesthetic experience is the syntax of the image.
“The most perfect logic to be found is in the play of imagination. “ – Charles Sanders Peirce