Pond in summer, taken with iPhone4, retouched with photogene I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as […]
When I take a photograph, I’m looking for the light. Then, as I retouch it, I’m looking for the impression. What I want to accomplish is to recreate the sensation when we look at something quickly and are left with equal parts distinct and indistinct perception. The melding of the two states creates an impression […]
Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behavior patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function. Konrad Lorenz One hot Friday afternoon a long time ago […]
So much is made of the pain that accompanies creation. What if the essence of creativity was love? I know myself that as compelling as the image is, the reality of setting out to make a work of the imagination, to tease the fluid ingredients from your mind and hold them still enough that they can […]
A Japanese poet once wrote that there is no utility in metaphor, that in the modern world the only valuable expression is of words that are specific to one thing. This is language as the table of existential elements: when used precisely, words make an objective reality that we can use to breach the gaps between […]
When I write a poem I try to keep the words as simple and true as I can manage. The temptation to show-off with language is always there, and the temptation to force meaning will make me pause and doubt the words. I know that the music is in the plainsong of language and that […]