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Landscape photography, for me, can be a contest between myself and my habitual seeing. These moments, if won, can be invested with a sense of magic and awe. When a photograph works, it's imbued with mystery and meaning without necessarily always being able to understand that meaning. Sometimes it's the mystery of light and colour and form, or the symbolism of mountains and other elements, and at other times it is so subtle as to be almost invisible. I am often content not to expect meaning but to be satisfied with the existential fact of just being there and being grateful for the ability to see. "The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture - however unreasonable that may sound...The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being. A state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. The picture is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state" - Robert Henri 1923 |
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