The photographer
“There’s no new ideas in the world, there’s only new arrangements of things. Everything is new, every minute is new. That means re-examining. Life changes […]
quotes
Parking garage
*** “People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, […]
Degrees of separation
*** “To be, in a word, unborable…. It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you […]
Apparition
Detail: “We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are […]
For madmen only
“Do you think I can’t understand your horror of the fox trot, your dislike of bars and dancing floors, your loathing of jazz and the […]
Internal combustion
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something […]
A revolutionary act
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at […]
Y Pues Nada
“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of […]
In the moment
*** “Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures […]
Trespassing
“It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and […]
Wilderness
“Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. How shall I […]
A generous medium
“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle […]
Love you
“I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.” ― Sylvia Plath, Elm
That elusive wonder
“Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent […]
Silhouette Reflection (black and white photo)
Something to read from something I am reading: “It is a longing for the heroic, for a greater seriousness of life than ordinary human beings […]
Abstractions
Here are some quotes from the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian accompanied by a few of my black and white photos. I’m aware that it is […]
Balancing chaos
“It’s very spiritual because you’re suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything — left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It’s […]