Clouds Below

I haven’t been shooting that much lately, focusing more on finishing a book of my words and pictures and also getting ready for an exhibition at the Arb opening on November 2. And, truth be told, while I love what I see in these bark pictures, it’s pretty much all I’ve shot in the past year and I need something new. Not at all sure what that will be, so the adventure is in front of me…

So, to fill the gap, here’s something very much not new - it’s from an earlier series of mine called “At the Edge of the Pond” (look on my website here and here) that I completed during Covid. I find a different kind of ambiguity from what I discovered in tree bark. When I focused on reflections I found enigma and visual confusion - just enough to cause me to look more closely which is always a good direction.

Looking down to see clouds is not the common experience. And yet it is so clear once you decode what you’re looking at. Being pushed - invited - to puzzle out what we’re looking at, that’s one of the gifts of art for which I am grateful.