Like many photographers, I was trained as a painter. Unlike painting however, photography is literally writing with light in which information becomes the narrative brought into the picture. This narrative records perceptions known through the optical unconscious, but not accurately articulated, to become incipit. Photographic images are the residue of memory and thus perceived differently than painted images. The perceptual aspect of photographic image-creation is what is so intriguing about photography as a medium of expression. The camera is a tool which allows the photographer to produce a philosophical investigation of a rational truth in an idiom which theorist Roland Barthes described as “an abstract circle of truths, outside of which alone the solid residue of an individual logos begins to settle.” The order of interpreting photographic argot is not, like a written text, left to right or right to left, but in all directions simultaneously. This construal allows the viewer to perceive a more arcane representation as the eye continually returns to a central subject. Photography contributes to the dislocation of time and space through a semiotic structure to produce a phenomenological impact. The photographer Edward Putzar described this approach in which the photographer must “...turn to Conceptual Photography through Zen camera of the mind. Or take up gardening––which is surely the most perfect practice of Zen outside of non-gardening.” 

 

A series of published monographs of specific galleries are available:

 

https://www.blurb.com/books/11205986-flora-tondi

https://www.blurb.com/books/11218006-digital-ikebana

https://www.blurb.com/books/11571290-the-phenomenamala

https://www.blurb.com/books/11217443-the-mudras-of-gyudzin-tantric-monastery

https://www.blurb.com/books/11220006-root

https://www.blurb.com/books/11605162-necropolis

https://www.blurb.com/books/11217117-fairy-circles-and-the-metaphysics-of-enchantment

https://www.blurb.com/books/11596697-cloud-bash

https://www.blurb.com/books/11415851-the-alchemical-stations-of-the-cross

https://www.blurb.com/books/11589307-nasturtiums-of-the-floating-world

https://www.blurb.com/books/11436065-hekate-s-garden

https://www.blurb.com/books/11264520-old-fig-garden

https://www.blurb.com/books/11623368-thusness-and-image

https://www.blurb.com/books/11677240-plant

https://www.blurb.com/books/11645828-ulalume

https://www.blurb.com/books/11659711-the-rose-of-sharon

https://www.blurb.com/books/11667082-the-nests-of-dzi

https://www.blurb.com/books/11653028-begonia

https://www.blurb.com/books/11204531-contemplatives

https://www.blurb.com/books/11264520-old-fig-garden

https://www.blurb.com/books/11688124-cactus

 

 

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