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
(Heather above Aber Mawr, 2005)
The ordinary day
The idea that enlightenment can be found in the ordinary moment of the ordinary day. Every day of life is the most extraordinary and inconceivable phenomenon, every moment. The difficulty is to realise this, and to portray it, the ordinary.