About
A scattering of written fragments serve as useful headings for some thoughts about my approach to photography. As with the Portfolio, this section is an ongoing development, and further relevant thoughts will be added here as and when they may occur. The sources can be found here.
- Music makers
- Marvellous isolation
- Unfenced existence
- Mere verisimilitude
- Blind gloom
- Unruminative technicality
- A superstructure of ideas
- Spacious discovery
- Primitive promptings
- Lost hours
- Shared state
- Silently singing
- Indelible shadows
- Facile technique
- Art happens
- Quiet forces
- Circumstances of beauty
- Beyond thought
- Abstract category
- The hunter’s trance
- The ordinary day
- Undisturbed space
- Interior life
- What the river says
- Other eyes
- Contained location
- Subtle dimension
- The pure stone
(Burnet Rose, 2006)
Indelible shadows
The fixed nature of a photograph alters our perception. Understanding this helps transcend reality to the emotional and spiritual plane of art - but this fixing is also photography’s downfall. Beauty is transformed, but so every flaw and error is magnified. The eye is remorseless, it is without mercy, and it does not forgive the incongruous withered petal, the insistent corner of tarmac, the frustrating imbalance of form. Weakness is as indelible as beauty.