Today
I am pondering the relationship between visual clarity and suggested images that can be taken into myself as something being closer to the truth that exists
in the wordless places deep within my core existence. A mouthful to be sure,
but as I am applying these thoughts to what at times emerges as a different
direction of interior sight, that place where only a felt sense of what is seen
by the eyes is expressed and may perhaps only be described as abstraction takes
place. I am thinking of the century and a half of impressionist and abstract art
and photography we have been exposed to in our lifetimes.
Lately as I sit in front of the computer
screen working on an image I find myself trying to express something more than
just another finely crafted image. The tools for photographic imaging that are
available are as vastly complex those available to any artist working in the many
mediums of artistic endeavor, and I have moved out of a place where technique
is overwhelming, it is becoming simply available to me. The learning process is
endless and will always continue, and at this time taking in digital technique as
applied to photography has become comfortable and most importantly, usable in
trying to express what is emerging from my interior self. Let me say rather,
emerging from the space where God's Spirit lives in the unknown but felt
pockets of Light that are in all of us.
What follows in this post are recent
photographs taken over the last two weeks which express for me something of
what I sensed was my insight into
what was visible in that present moment of time before the camera shutter was released.
Abstract thoughts are impossible to express with clarity. How can one use words
to describe an impression, a moment of seeing with the heart, a felt sense of what the Spirit's Wind
brings as it blows through in a single moment of insight.
So, enough of words that are totally
inadequate to describe what I am sensing as being a place of viewpoint that may
be expressive in some way to you the viewer looking at my attempts to taking abstract feelings into a
visual medium.
These thoughts are only mine and are in no
way put forth as having any weight to speak of these things in a concrete way.
Your patience with my meanderings is greatly appreciated.
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"Abstract art uses a visual language of
form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in
the world."
Rudolph Arndheim, Visual Thinking
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Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, August 2013.
(Something of a memory of pictures taken as a child with a cheap camera that had a plastic lens. Tourists run to this vantage point which does offer a magnificent view.)
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The inner self I believe mirrors the external five senses we use to know the world. The inner sense of hearing is one. Here is a tone poem by Jean Sibelius called The Swan Of Tuonela from Finlandia. Take a listen and allow the music to be heard with a different set of ears.
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Some Humor:
Peace and Serenity,
Bill Lagerstrom
