Seeing Meaning
weighty images
I started taking photos again. This time on a digital camera, which is new for me. Photography has always been an on again off again obsession of mine, and while looking for something in an old journal (yikes!) I found a shoebox full of film strips, prints, and scans from over the last 15 years or so. It shouldn’t be a surprise-I’m incredibly nostalgic. One of my small promises to myself for this new year, is to organize and catalog them in some sort of way so that these memories and moments and epiphanies have more of a life beyond a dusty drawer in the basement. Like alynda segarra said- The Past Is Still Alive. I think it’s important to Remember.
I went to see the Sister Corita Kent exhibit at the Marciano Foundation a few days and felt so inspired-it was mostly slides of her photographs projected in threes on a big screen. I was reminded of a past exhibit on her in 2013 at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College when I lived in Saratoga-one of my first big moments of inspiration on dedicating myself to the path of making art. There were a list of rules (which I’m sure many of you have seen) that I printed out and have had a version of hanging in my living/work spaces ever since.
Another promise to myself is to keep a closer council, not give everything that is on the inside to strangers, at least not right away (this means you, dear reader).Trust myself a bit, at least at first. There is no demo to share, no rough draft, no promise of an album to come right now. It’s all about balance, right?
But in order to honor the harmony between in and out, I’m sharing some more recent photos I took. I won’t tell you what they mean to me. But I will let you see them. Hopefully they will mean something to you, too. That’s always my hope.
I leave you with a quote from Susan Sontag’s On Photography
"Photography implies that we know about the world if we accept it as the camera records it. But this is the opposite of understanding, which starts from not accepting the world as it looks. All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no. Strictly speaking, one never understands anything from a photograph….the camera’s rendering of reality must always hide more than it discloses."
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