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Just as each flower has its own color, all colors are caused by the the same light, so do many experiencers appear in the ...
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Just as each flower has its own color, all colors are caused by the the same light, so do many experiencers appear in the undivided and indivisible awareness, each separate in memory, identical in essence. -I Am That
Lana
When adrift on still seas
Every thought is a ripple
I see them from underneath
Because I am drowning
There are two types of landscape artists: the artist that paints at home and the artist that paints in his element. As a photographer I have been the latter; I paint in my element. Waking early or staying out late I find a canvas and capture it frame by frame by frame by moment. I take reality, add a drop of my self to the canvas, and deliver a photograph. Sometimes literal, other times hyperreal.
For “Lana,” which means “adrift” in Hawaiian, I painted at home. At home I can take sea and make it rough or serene. I blow the clouds north or east as I please. At home, sunsets last weeks. Studies have shown that we see as many as 10M different colors. At home I can sample each one. I took several years of experiences and photographs and added a bucket of my self this time. I am delivering more than a photograph of a landscape. Lana is the conceptualization of my heart and the landscape of my imagination.
The few people who have seen this image has been quick to ask me where I photographed it. When I say, “my imagination,” they grin at me as though I am keeping a secret from them. You won’t find this place anywhere and no one can claim to know it. I am also asked who is the silhouette. Its not me. Or is it? Its my dreamscape and I’m the one taking its picture. There are three experiencers in “Lana.” There is me, the silhouette, adrift in thought. Then there is me, the photographer, drifting with the calm superlative of 10,000 colors and 1,000 shades of black. Lastly there is you, the audience, a transient in the surreal frame of a dream’s landscape.
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Just as each flower has its own color, all colors are caused by the the same light, so do many experiencers appear in the undivided and indivisible awareness, each separate in memory, identical in essence. -I Am That
Lana
When adrift on still seas
Every thought is a ripple
I see them from underneath
Because I am drowning
There are two types of landscape artists: the artist that paints at home and the artist that paints in his element. As a photographer I have been the latter; I paint in my element. Waking early or staying out late I find a canvas and capture it frame by frame by frame by moment. I take reality, add a drop of my self to the canvas, and deliver a photograph. Sometimes literal, other times hyperreal.
For “Lana,” which means “adrift” in Hawaiian, I painted at home. At home I can take sea and make it rough or serene. I blow the clouds north or east as I please. At home, sunsets last weeks. Studies have shown that we see as many as 10M different colors. At home I can sample each one. I took several years of experiences and photographs and added a bucket of my self this time. I am delivering more than a photograph of a landscape. Lana is the conceptualization of my heart and the landscape of my imagination.
The few people who have seen this image has been quick to ask me where I photographed it. When I say, “my imagination,” they grin at me as though I am keeping a secret from them. You won’t find this place anywhere and no one can claim to know it. I am also asked who is the silhouette. Its not me. Or is it? Its my dreamscape and I’m the one taking its picture. There are three experiencers in “Lana.” There is me, the silhouette, adrift in thought. Then there is me, the photographer, drifting with the calm superlative of 10,000 colors and 1,000 shades of black. Lastly there is you, the audience, a transient in the surreal frame of a dream’s landscape.
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