Laws Of Gravity

I will be taking a short hiatus from blogging and shooting for personal reasons. I will be back in full force shooting and creating an abundance of visual stories during the late summer. 

"I do not understand the mystery of grace, only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us." - Anne Lamott

A Conversation With Trees

When everything you've ever felt can be perceived through am image.

(not this one - duh)

A day spent shooting film. Bending light through trees, through conversations, through bodies of water, shadows, people, dreams, clouds and street signs.

We'll get that roll developed tomorrow.

(and then we'll go shoot another).

This?

This was what I was born to do.

To Be Alive

 Some moments you never forget, some moments stay with us forever. Etched in minds and hearts and dreams. This moment was one of post-contemplation (read - of months, possibly years), it has been articulately and delicately planned, and it was one of delicious righteousness.

I'll always remember the way my body moved effortlessly, without much skill or thought or contemplation on this momentous occasion. The profound sense of pleasure in such a small thing (in all things small). A sense of alienation at the prospect of finally having found a harbour in what had seemed like such a wild, vast (black) ocean for such an extensive period of time.

That feeling? It cannot be explained in words. 

This is, no doubt, the start of something equally enchanting as that single moment.

You Are Not a Dinosaur

I was utterly delighted to receive an email last week informing me that my work had been displayed at the "Useless, Useless" exhibition on May 3rd in Minneapolis, California. The work featured was from this set on my flickr and you can find out more about the exhibition and it's opening here and here.

Dream and Awake

"Believe, really believe you can move a mountain and you absolutely will. Not many people believe that they can move mountains, so as a result, not many people do. Those who believe they can't, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do. Actually, in these modern times belief is doing much bigger things than moving mountains. The most essential element - infact, the essential element - in our space explorations today is belief that space can be mastered. Without firm, unwavered belief that man can travel alone in space, our scientists would not have the courage, interest, and enthusiasm to proceed. Belief that cancer can be cured will ultimately produce cures for cancer. Some years ago, there was talk of building a tunnel under the English Channel to connect England with the Continent. The fact that this tunnel is now complete depended on wether responsible people believed it could be built.

Belief in great results is the driving force, the power behind all great books, plays, scientific discoveries. Belief in success is behind every successful business, church, and political organisation. Belief in success is the one basic, absolutely essential ingredient in successful people." - David J. Schwartz

Believe, really believe you can succeed and you will.

Journeys, Traces & Unlikely Spaces

"What's it like living at the bottom of the ocean?", he asked. "It's in hoping, every day, you'll rise to the surface", she replied.

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The following is a personal journal entry taken from August 2012 in relation to the above images

Some days are just hard.

Some days I just remember.

Some days its difficult to understand how things can materialise out of what once was. 

Or what now is.

Or what now ultimately remains.

(if anything)

And I look back, as if it was another life or another universe and another face. As if those birds or that sky or her hands were perfect boundaries from a life that now is.

And now my warped relationship with gravity correlates the disturbance and chaos between here and then.

Between now and the time of my red suede shoes. 

Between trying to understand the analogy of what happens today and tomorrow and next week because of yesterday.

Some days I'm learning.

Other days I don't think I'm even beginning to understand.

Some days I just lie and feel and watch the world turn and it feels too fast or too slow and I feel not enough or too much. Other times I wonder if I'm feeling too much or thinking too much or not enough or not at all.

But I can still touch it.

I cant go back, but I can touch it.

We can all touch it.

I guess theres faith in the ability to touch who you once were and know there are still fragments of you that remain.

Because there'll always be a part of you now in who you were before.

The hard(est) part is knowing how to find, and ultimately recapture your true self before adversity.

I'm learning.

I guess the process is just a little bit longer and a little bit (lot) more obscured than backwards and forwards and forwards and backwards.  In the end; the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Alive In Skies

"A dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde 

I feel these images don't exactly illustrate my recent desire for delicious light filled things. Its been (too long) since I gained my original satisfaction from shooting and developing film. Time, it's a funny. If we spend too long in one place (lingering, pausing, thinking, suspending the inevitable until tomorrow...always tomorrow), then days, months, years pass by. Skies pass over, again, again, and again. Light turns blue, white, red, purple, pink, orange, yellow, and we blink and breathe and sleep and eat (and repeat) but do not notice, time.

Its true, that we can't stay in the same place forever.

Perhaps these images could have created themselves a deeper meaning, though. To be kept as a passage. A confirmation, and a reminder that the present only ever exists for an unreasonably short period of time before established actions, permanent memories and lost opportunities set themselves comfortably into the past.

"I only do this until I get dizzy, then I lay down on my back and watch the clouds, she said. It sounds simple, but you wouldn't believe how many people forget the second part"