There is little more here than a blur.
Emergent stirrings in the shallows.
Unseen, the excavations of beauty
From the unfathomable physicality of life…
HOME – Here in the fluidity of black and white are the fleeting spirits of the ceremonial fire, life’s algorithmic dance on the Myakka River, the artistry of water in the stone of Lower Antelope Canyon, and winter abstractions from the woods of the Finger Lakes.
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Below is my ekphrastic writing that seeks to give my photographic work a second life, to describe it, extend it, deepen it. These are the images that have stirred in me a need to explore or amplify feelings and ideas, or that resonated with a particular passage from a reading.
Sealed Doorways
Chiseled in the darkness of stone, Lie the buried, unfathomable fire, The sounds of the pounding sea, The evolution of hands to possess, shape, subjugate. His Breath, His Word—Ihíio, Itlátol— Aztec salutations and obeisance now silenced. The offer of this man carrying...
If Winter is Defined by Absence
How to express this need to flee, this need to stay,
Or pretend that this wild, uncertain heart isn’t to be feared?
Channeling Gabriel Alone
The trumpeter
Throws his eyes
Upwards
To the chandeliers
Like lighted sparrows…
Presence, Absence, Loss
And so it lands
In time, the random ripplings across its surface,
The ‘photographic frame.’ The architecture of evolution…
When That Moment Comes
When that moment comes,
That final illumination that comes to all,
I hope to be aware of the earth as it turns from the sun…
The Immediacy of the Unseen
We seek to make visible the immediacy of the unseen
—what is lived—
That falls away and vanishes without words or form.
Yet here…