I’ve made progress with my photographic project planning for 2021. I have decided that one of the projects that I work on will be about flowers. But I’m not sure what the style of the flower images will be. I know that they will be abstractions, not just portraits of flowers.But that’s all I know so far.
I am happy to have made these decisions and I continue to explore new possibilities.
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
My creative journey continues
Today I worked with a few new images of my second amaryllis plant that is now in glorious full bloom.
My experiments include layering photos of the flower in varying stages of development, mirroring and manipulating copies of images, using radial filters, and layering flower images with watercolor texture paintings.
I cannot say exactly what I am seeking though I will know it when I see it. The words that come to mind today as closest to what I am looking to create are: ineffable grace, luminousity, darkness, depth, mystery, infinity, the life force, meaning.
No one yet has made a list of places where the extraordinary may happen and where it may not. Still, there are indications. Among crowds, in drawing rooms, among easements and comforts and pleasures, it is seldom seen. It likes the out-of-doors. It likes the concentrating mind. It likes solitude. It is more likely to stick to the risk-taker than the ticket-taker. It isn’t that it would disparage comforts, or the set routines of the world, but that its concern is directed to another place. Its concern is the edge, and the making of a form out of the formlessness that is beyond the edge. — Vincent Van Gogh
What are you creating this week? And how is your creative journey going?
May you walk in beauty.
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