Tag: conscious

  • Water

    Water

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    Difluence, 2016– Convergent :: (click to see more)

    When I look back on it, I’ve often delighted in water. I wrote about damming rain and melt water as a kid but there’s more. There’s an element of fear and caution mixed with the playful. It took me a long while to fully recognize the true power of water.

    Water is the single most powerful force on earth – it shapes and wears everything. Environmental water is the most difficult thing to keep out of our homes. Coupled with gravity, water will eventually go anywhere.

    Swimming and diving in and under water is great fun but also scary. We are little nothings once we are in water. It’s so dense and massive we are easily carried away by unseen currents while in it’s liquid embrace.

    And yet water is playful by nature – like a puppy that doesn’t know it’s strength or the sharpness of it’s teeth. It just wants to splash and engage us but will easily overpower and destroy us if we’re not careful..

    I think – and I know this sounds weird but, perhaps large bodies of water are conscious. Maybe consciousness is a kind of wave function that arises in sufficiently complex environments – like large bodies of water. Perhaps the surface oscillations can be equated to thought – who knows, but I like the idea.

     

  • Inner Emotion

    Inner Emotion

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    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.

    William-Oldacre-coloured-city-@-harry-rosen-sherway-gardens-toronto-canada 2015
    Coloured City @Harry Rosen, Sherway Gardens Toronto 2015
    William-Oldacre-coloured-city-@-harry-rosen-sherway-gardens-toronto-canada 2015
    Coloured City @Harry Rosen, Sherway Gardens Toronto 2015