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| Stones in The Pond |
Monday, October 3, 2011
Ripples
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Octuber 2011 Theme Day: Mystery Object
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| The Eisenstadt Sphere Oedenburger Str. 2 As photographers, we must focus on the details of life and bypass the generalities. There is a saying in Zen: examine the living words and not the dead ones. We must open a direct line to reality, unclouded by the dust of the past - see Eden before the expulsion. Our challenge is to see the living fact - to become intimate with life. John Greer. Artist's Statement (Fragment) |
Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Cloisters III
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The Unselfconscious Process
One of the most confusing and paradoxical aspects of Zen is its view of the self. Zen says we aren't who we think we are. While we are seen to exist in the relative sense, in terms of the absolute, the dance and the dancer are considered to be one. Many spiritual traditions have seen similar truths, and claim that by losing one's life, life is indeed gained. By emptying we become full. While no doubt confusing for the novice, its implication for the photographer would be to forget oneself, as much as possible, when taking pictures. This, in fact, is a very common experience among musicians and painters, who often report "losing themselves" in their art. In a sense, the picture takes itself. In the words of Henri Cartier-Bresson, "you have to blend in like a fish in water, you have to forget yourself." The artist becomes the process of creation. When something bigger than the persona takes charge, when Life itself is given free reign unhampered by our premeditated ideas of what should happen, the resultant pictures can be quite remarkable.
John Greer. Artist's Statement (Fragment)
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The Cloisters II
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| Head, perhaps an Angel. Limestone. France. Île-de-France, about 1250. |
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| Altar Frontal. Catalunya, Spain. ca. 1225 |
Monday, September 26, 2011
The Cloisters I
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| Head. Strasbourg. 1280-1300 |
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| The Angel of Annunciation. Northeastern Italy 1430-40. |
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The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, was assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century.
The building and its cloistered gardens—located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan—are treasures in themselves, effectively part of the collection housed there. The Cloisters' collection comprises approximately three thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about the ninth to the sixteenth century.
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