I'm always interested in how light is refracted, bent, dimmed, enhanced, etc. Light is probably the crux of my photographic interests and the main subject of my lens. I usually try, however, not to slip into complete abstraction. I do this by capturing only quotidian observations. That is, I keep my eyes open to the wonders of 'nature' wherever I am - whether it be out in what modernity calls wilderness or whether I be sitting at the breakfast table staring out the window through a vase at a wild, urban landscape, like I was when I took the photographs below.
I'm obviously not a professional photographer by any stretch and so you could say that this "series" of photographs below is ongoing (meaning that it is going nowhere), but it and other "series" of photographs that I develop keep me alive and help me defamiliarize myself ontologically and epistemologically. Basically, photography crosses and uncrosses my eyes. Like pure poiesis, or like a true and sincere prayer, it gives me back those moments that come before thought, before I've given in to ideology or the written word (if I'm not completely wrong, Julia Kristeva calls this moment the chora in her book Desire in Language).
Photographic series: "Through the Looking Glass"
1. Still Life / Landscape #1
2. Still Life / Landscape #2
3. Still Life / Landscape #3
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I guess I've done the same thing with my "photography" (I put that word in parenthesis because I've never taken a photography class and I use my point and shoot digital camera), try to defamiliarize simple things. When I read Shklovsky's article for the first time I thought, and I still do, that he hit the nail on the head when it comes to the purpose of art. I also believe that it is a way to understand the human condition, but Shklovsky really opened my eyes.
When I shoot photos, I like looking for patterns in nature and modernity, like the furrows in a field. I try to capture the repetition of patterns for some reason. Yes this comment is over.
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