I've been hoarding photos waiting for a show, hoping to reveal them in a gallery / cafe / etc.... Growing impatient with an abundance of photos (I've been busy with the camera, just not so much with the blogosphere), I've decided to post some of the photos I've taken in the past few months... There are many fewer photos whose content is pure Nature.. I've incorporated more modern human inventions which are so prevalent in our urban and suburban landscapes, specifically the telephone wires and poles which are juxtaposed with the branches and trunks of trees to create a seamless skyscape of the natural and digital / human.....
As seen in the photos taken during the session in Deptford (previous post), the themes of communication and freedom have expanded from my previous works... Fences and metal barricades complement vast negative space that dominates many of the photos shown here... There are barriers and, beyond that, abyss of sky... The dialectic of mundane and spiritual (Earth and Air) is the axis which creates the opposing spaces for most of these photos... The photo entitled "God and Adam" is meant to evoke the famous image from the Sistine Chapel in which their arms are extended toward each other (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:God2-Sistine_Chapel.png)... In one sense, the angels which envelop Michelangelo's God are represented as telephone wires-- wires which carry reproduced voices which, through mechanical or digital translation, lack the breath and spirit which was essential to their originary formation...... The voice heard through a telephone is a de-spirited echo...
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