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)
Unruminative technicality
The camera is a machine of the industrial age; invented with the Industrial Revolution; evolving with the Electronic Revolution. To imbue the boundless of imagination using inanimate tools seems an incongruous challenge, but one overcome since the first civilisations shaped wood, stone and metal with their own inanimate tools. Not so different after all.