• Searching For Shadows

    It is an adventure to explore Shadow entries in a complete lexicon. You turn away frazzled after an hour’s study, weighed down by the sensation you know less than when you began. Shadow’s most cogent definition seems to be: the dark figure cast upon a surface by a body intercepting the rays from a source […]

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    June 16, 2021 By Redburnusa
  • A View Into A Smaller World

    Golden fractals, autumn multi-colors and soft liquid effects — leave nothing more to desire.    

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    June 14, 2021 By Redburnusa
  • On the Replication of Beauty

    “Beauty brings copies of itself into being. It makes us draw it, take photographs of it, or describe it to other people. Sometimes it gives rise to exact replication and other times to resemblances and still other times to things whose connection to the original site of inspiration is unrecognizable. Elaine Scarry in On Beauty And […]

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    June 14, 2021 By Redburnusa
  • Pleasure From Abstractions

    It seems impossible to escape forms in the abstract. Nothing is empty in the whole of creation; even emptiness bubbles with possibilities. Raw materials here consist of flowers, foliage, and the branching structure of a landscape pistachio tree. You can deconstruct appearance — break things down into tiny pieces — and you end up with […]

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    June 13, 2021 By Redburnusa
  • Some Backyard Magnificence

         

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    June 13, 2021 By Redburnusa
  • Iconic Musician, Interpreted

    I watched this man work up-close live onstage through many potent hours. He performed shirtless, barefoot and dread-locked, played mixed drums with the power of three people. Above I peeled back his public face and surface appearance, folding time and history aside, an attempt to reveal the iconic musician and archetype beneath. A more conventional […]

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    June 13, 2021 By Redburnusa
  • Learning From Joseph Conrad

    “A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art must carry its justification in every line. And art itself may be defined as the single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect. It is an […]

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    June 11, 2021 By Redburnusa
  • Goldilocks Smiles: A Hypothesis

    On The Unconscious Genius Of Women   The Goldilocks story has been elaborated and revised over the past two hundred years in written form; it now diverges substantially from the original nursery rhyme. The protagonist started out a nosy old woman who broke two pieces of furniture in the house of three bears. Except for […]

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    June 11, 2021 By Redburnusa
  • Improvements On Reality

    Does this seem a sacrilege? Photographs were once like smoke or like footprints — generating a reliable sign, the source of which cannot be mistaken. Footprints mean a human or humans passed that way. There is no mystery in smoke; it transcribes flame. Our image signifies itself first — a heresy — then climbs beyond […]

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    June 7, 2021 By Redburnusa
  • Concerning the Integrity of the Subject

    “The integrity of the subject should be maintained.” THE GOLDEN RULE “This is our Golden Rule which you should always refer back to if you are unsure on any particular process. Another way to look at this would be to say that: A viewer familiar with the landscape and photographic process should not feel deceived […]

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    June 5, 2021 By Redburnusa

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