Persona

"There can be no transforming of darkness into light 

and of apathy into movement without emotion."

- C.G. Jung

Yashica T4 / 35mm / FujiFilm / iso200 / rendered

Arizona - Dragoon Mountains
January 2011
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DRAFT

A Simple Conversation

Linville Gorge, NC / June 2012
Pentax Espio 115v / 35mm / FujiFilm iso200

($3 at Goodwill)

image slightly rendered

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"Nice photo.  Where did you take it?"
     "Glad you like it.  I saw it in my dream last night."


"You took a photograph of your dream?"
     "Yes."


"How?"
     "It imprinted itself on my soul and in the morning, before I was too awake, I pressed  myself against the patio door glass."


"What were you thinking?"
     "I wasn't."


"So, you captured this....image...?"
     "Yes, on the patio door.  It's a rough outline of the image on my soul.  Just a sketch, really; a rendering.  I can't describe the real thing in words."


"Beautiful."
     "You have no idea."


"I love the beautiful green and the sky and the horizon.  And the clouds - I love how the clouds form over the deep river-gorge as if constellating its opposite."
     "It's not a gorge and sky and clouds."


"What is it?"
     "The Mystery."

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a beautiful hymn from the self to the Self

by Moya Brennan

No Matter Where You Go, I Will Find You...

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stolen gardenia

draft 1

digital / slightly rendered

summer 2012

Hymn of the Universe

Ricoh Auto 35 / 35mm / Fujifilm iso200 / rendered

"To be pure of heart means to love God above all things and at the same time 
to see him everywhere in all things."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Hymn of the Universe

NY: Harper & Row Perennial Library, 1965 (1961), p. 127
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Integration of Opposites

digital / slightly rendered

spring 2012

Chinese philosophy...sees the primal opposites of Yin and Yang.  Yin is the principle of rest, the unchanging, the dark, the cool, the moist, the female, the side of the mountain in the shade.  Yang is the principle of movement, of change, the bright, the hot, the dry, the male, the side of the mountain in the sun.  Yin is continually going over to Yang, Yang is continually going over to Yin.  The two are combined in the T'ai Chi.  Yin has the seed of Yang in it, Yang has the seed of Yin; Yin is perpetually becoming Yang, Yang is perpetually becoming Yin; the whole harmoniously working together for the man, or the people, who can see the opposites in their deep consonance with the ordinances of Heaven.  Wu Wei, an untranslatable expression, usually rendered as 'not-doing', a wise acceptance of life, an inaction which enables the creative activity to operate, is the essence of the Chinese view.

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Experiment in Depth

A Study of the Work of Jung, Eliot and Toynbee

P.W. Martin, Kegan Paul 1955, p. 141

softer light

Soft Light

Down to my last cigarette and you ask me whether it's a wave or a particle.  Crazy.  Everything between dream and death is fair game and all I want right now is a drink but I can't have one.  So don't bore me with stuff even Ray Carver wouldn't touch.  What we talk about is better left unsaid most days.  Cloistered sisters shout, "Throw away your bucket; jump into the ocean!"

     Wave-particle duality postulates that all particles exhibit both wave and particle properties.

Edward Steichen, "Ascending"

Paris, 1902

You say there's a difference between her skin and her scent.  Crazy.  Just let me feel that reticulate curve of her body once more and I'll tell you a story.  Shimmering planet and summer lightning bug hovering high in a pine tree is all the same to a man who needs glasses.  I don't care about exoteric or esoteric and I don't know right from wrong on certain days.  I swim upstream.

         A central concept of quantum mechanics, this duality       

   addresses the inability of classical concepts like "particle" and  

  "wave" to fully describe the behavior of quantum-scale objects.

I am not lonely or afraid or sad but I do have this wish to come closer into her orbit and celebrate simple things in silence.  But crazy doesn't cover everything and talk is cheap.  Fish rarely surrender they find refuge behind rocks.

          Standard interpretations of quantum mechanics explain this paradox as a fundamental property of the Universe,

I don't want to debate I want a smoke.

   ...while alternative interpretations explain the duality as an emergent, second-order consequence of various limitations of the observer.

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