Category: In The Garden
In The Garden – Olive II
Olive II. Paros, Greece. 2010. Scan from 8×10 negative. I am playing catch-up with Mike Chisholm’s wonderful blog and work. Having just read his playful, but I think earnest, suggestion for a different kind of PhD based on the following Ruskin quote, I’m tempted to design a photo course around poetry, prophecy and religion (although […]
In The Garden – Olive. VI.
Olive. VI. Paros, Greece. 2010 Scan from 8×10 negative Where is the opening, the closing, the beginning, the end Why the edge, the wedge or age? What of the form between form, the shape of shape of youmeyoumeyou, just blending?
In The Garden – Earth. Sky.
Earth. Sky. Cortona, Italy. March 2010. (Where are you now, Julian Jaynes?) print from 8×10 negative, processed with Pyro developer “Part of the fascination with gardening is that it is, on the one hand, a practical exercise of the human body and, on the other, a direct participation in the ritual of birth and life […]
In The Garden – Suns
Suns. (fresco and La Nativita by Raffaello Vanni.) Chiesa di San Francesco, Cortona, Italy. March 2010. 8×10 film, processed in pyro. The series, ‘In The Garden’, began while I was in Cortona, in 2010. I knew then that the work had something to do with the singular sense of relief that comes from compression and […]
