CAMERA-CRITTERS, DEMONS AND OTHER VISIONS UPDATED 2/5/09

Ludlowville Falls late March-08

Ludlowville Falls Detail

A curtain of drawn in front of the "cowshed"































Shallow water, sunlight and stones in
Cayuga Lake at Long Point State Park
near Aurora, NY
















When demons haunt they everywhere appear.
Banishment is of no avail.
Accept reminders, they help purge the soul
by making common-place the extreme.


Fear is tempered by familiarity.



Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson



A shaft of sunlight piercing the leafy canopy illuminates, isolates and focuses on fern fronds normally reclusive in a shady fen. The form, beautiful in its simplicity, is the epitome of efficiency, a leafy surface and a central pipeline.


January 7,1852
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls.
And then sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.
And then the damask curtains glow along the western window.
And now the first star is lit, and I go home.
.............................................Henry David Thoreau

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CAMERA CRITTERS

As fallen leaves mark the season; the endless stairway marks the pathway. The path of life is littered with discarded thoughts and feelings once held in lofty esteem but in the fall of life are seen merely as cluttering the path near journey’s end.



The journey is the reason fall can be the melancholy season.

A crop of leaves dissolves into the stream bed, the newly fallen leaves, the ancient rocky stream bed unite, yielding a glimpse into ageless geological and biological processes.



See the future by understanding the past before you







As endlessly repeated throughout the ages, the current crop of leaves melt into the stream bed, duplicating the ageless process of returning to its roots. The newly fallen leaves and the ancient rocky stream bed unite. Life’s interdependence, the continuity of processes, from micro to macro, the repetition through the ages, all are necessary for the system’s viability.
A fall rain will sweep this image away, yet the lesson is there to see, if only for a moment. A few weeks without a fall rain yields a glimpse into ageless geological and biological processes. Drawn together, forming an artistically and intellectually united moment.












Fluttering leaves open vistas to the sky,
Littering leaves a mess along the pathway.

When demons haunt they everywhere appear. Banishment is of no avail. Accept reminders, they help purge the soul by making common-place the extreme. Fear is tempered by familiarity