2016
Tag: flow
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Flow
Jet Stream, 2016 – Convergent :: (click to see more) As a kid we lived on a street that sloped downhill. I remember spending time playing in the river of rainwater rushing down the gutter of our street. The flow mesmerized me.
I’d spend ages finding ways to dam it up – leaves, twigs, sand, whatever had washed together. I had a whole block in which to trap it in widening lakes before it disappeared down the sewer at the end. Same thing in the spring during the snow melt – the water would erode the underside of the snowbanks and if I stomped hard enough I could collapse them and dam the stream.
I used to get soaking wet and cold but I was drawn to that inexorable flow – no matter how hard I worked I could never succeed in holding it back. But I did make some big lakes – which made most excellent waves when cars came by.
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Order From Chaos
green brown yellow streaks, 2011 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I’ve always observed the flow of things. Like predicting the flow of traffic around me while I drive – to plot my optimum path through it. I do this while driving on the 401 for example. I do the same thing when I photograph – I watch the movement of things, predict their alignment and photograph the patterns.
All my images are about alignments in the chaotic flow around me and the beautiful patterns they form.
In earlier days documenting alignments was enough for me. But in time, I recognized that just because it was my perspective didn’t make it interesting or significant for others – it needed something more.
If I could somehow distill my image to it’s core elements – it’s essence – and remove distractions, I could show it for exactly what it is. I could show it without the distraction of context – in the same way a young child beholds the wonder of the world.
This is my focus now.
I give you alignment without context – order and symmetry, manifest from chaos.
Isn’t it wondrous?
