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Inner Emotion

Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, grey, blue , muted, wedges, circles, shape

Turbulent Air, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)

Lately my mind has been scattered elsewhere and focused on aspects of completing work, but this week I managed to resume reading The Edge of Vision – The Rise of Abstraction in Photography.

In chapter 4 Barbara Morgan states “a photograph is a means of visual analogy, not primarily a document of fact or instant” that “binds many phenomena together, forging a connection between the inner world of emotion and the outer world of materiality” – that two generations of American photographers “developed an absolute tenet of faith that the meaning of a photograph was located in the photographer’s consciousness, not in the image per se”. So true – although I tend to think the unconscious mind plays a pivotal role too.

Also, had some recent success with three Coloured City images commissioned by Harry Rosen for their new store in Sherway Gardens Toronto.

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Coloured City @Harry Rosen, Sherway Gardens Toronto 2015

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Coloured City @Harry Rosen, Sherway Gardens Toronto 2015