ARTIST
| I am for art that makes you stop and think, and then cry, because you can’t think, you can only cry because it feels so beautiful. I am for searching for the right image, the best angle, the simplest background -- but mostly, I am for letting go and allowing the picture to come through me. I am for using art like a mirror – reflecting back at me a beautiful, orderly, mysterious, complex, disorienting, and true world. I am for taking photographs that help me lose myself in the beauty of a single flower for so long, that I almost forget I have children. I am for making images that I can’t forget – a vision that comes to me in my sleep, meditation, sadness, joy, or even emptiness. I am for images that follow me around, until finally, I stop and listen. I am for art that is like a good conversation. You walk away feeling challenged, new, worn out, happy, illuminated - but always feeling. I am for creativity that stops me in my tracks, makes me question, wonder -- makes me want to sit on the back porch, and breathe. I am for making images that help me turn away, turn inward, and turn around. I am for art that does all my thinking for me. |
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