Today’s topic is
The Grace of Gravity
for no other reason than I read a short poem about the Grace of Gravity and it spoke to me.
The body aches
To come too,
To the light,
Transmit the grace of gravity— Rebecca Elson
Where would we be without gravity? Floating through the air untethered from the weight of our bodies, untethered from the earth…
Sometimes when I watch talented dancers it looks like gravity has suspended it’s force for a moment here and there. And yet, it is gravity that makes the dance possible and the dancer who seemingly suspends the force of gravity for a leap that astonishes all who see it.
It is the grace of gravity which makes our bones strong and gives us the strength to overcome if just for a moment when we leap.
I ask myself, “How do I photograph gravity?” And for now I am uncertain. Should I photograph a heavy rock on the earth, a tree leaning towards the earth, a leaf floating through the air slowly drifting to the ground? Somehow it feels that everything that I photograph is a representation of the grace of gravity. But I still may ponder this riddle for awhile and see if I can make a photograph that depicts the grace of gravity.
…
No, there’s no escaping, nor would I want to escape
this outgo, this foot-loosening, this solution
to gravity and a single shape.
Now I am here, later I will be there.
I will be that small cloud staring down at the water,
the one that stalls, that lifts it’s white legs, that
looks like a lamb.
— Mary Oliver, from the poem Life Story, in her book, A Thousand Mornings
May you walk in beauty.
Double exposure made in camera of birch bark and owl feather
Double exposure made in-camera with an added photo texture layer
Double exposure made in camera of birch bark and owl feather
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