As dusk falls, the lights on the rides illuminate and silence seeps into the day. The waves are low. The moon sits high in the sky, aloof but comfortable. The night gains momentum on the boardwalk. You sit on the beach and plunge your hands deep in the sand. The surface is cool. Just below, [...]
There is no Silence in the Earth — so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World. –Emily Dickinson
I can’t see whatever you see here. I’m mesmerized by the cast of the eye, the angle of the nose, the gentle cherry lips. My heart swells when I stare at the photo and try to decipher its aesthetic. Strange, isn’t it? See, I know there’s something pleasing about the photo. That’s why I’m sharing [...]
The setting is so casual; it’s as if the extras were told to take a break, and some lay back to nap before the filming started back up again. The composition is elegant and classic. The effect mutes the metaphysical truth of the photo: This picture chronicles death. The fine line of the perspective draws [...]
In the great scheme of things, how much do things really change? Life was meaner and the time and space of human emotion more narrow 130 years ago. But the essential components of the human condition were much like they were today. I’m reminded of these things when I look at the photos below. People [...]
..the unwieldy elephant,/ To make them mirth, used all his might, and wreathed/ His lithe proboscis… John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV We elephants are images of humility, as when we/undertake our melancholy migrations to die. Dan Chiasson, The Elephant
In the quiet of am empty cathedral, archetypes creep up on you. Yankee Stadium is that kind of place for a long-time baseball fan. The imagery is mythological; a modern pantheon of ordinary men who did un-ordinary things, who are held up in memory as being something more than men. Like Gods, they have their [...]