A beautifully tactile image! The felt experience of the photo is quite strong, almost equal to, if not exceeding, the visual impact. My skin reacted to the shot. Although difficult in a close-up, there is depth here, as well as a clear definition of the subject. On another level, I like the interplay, the relationship between the rope and the wood beam it encircles. Stimulates thought, as your photos often do! Let me bend your ear a bit, please. My theory about art. Art is not always about beauty, or even mainly about it, but it does often express or celebrate it. In our day-to-day lives, we can allow the setting of our experience to become habitual or monotonous or gray. Art, your art, can summon us to live again, to improve the quality of our life. Look back over all your photos and you'll see that they exercise our capacity not only to see but also to feel, to be emotionally moved, thus enhancing our membership in both the human and the natural community. Your prose and your photography, full of sadness, love, laughter, loss, harmony, etc. make us better at understanding self and others and the natural world - education of the sensibilities, a lifting of the heart. That makes you a teacher of the highest kind, Heather. Life can be disjointed, demanding, fragmented; your art, and not just the "beautiful" art, can unify us, can give us just what is missing. The parts fit together into a whole. I suspect you know this, Heather, but the experience of living for you is rich and when you convey that richness to us through your art, you make us better people. You make me a better person. The felt quality of your personal experience, as reflected in your art, speaks to me on a number of levels: the sensory, the intellectual, the emotional. Yes, Heather Peden as teacher.
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A beautifully tactile image! The felt experience of the photo is quite strong, almost equal to, if not exceeding, the visual impact. My skin reacted to the shot. Although difficult in a close-up, there is depth here, as well as a clear definition of the subject. On another level, I like the interplay, the relationship between the rope and the wood beam it encircles. Stimulates thought, as your photos often do!
ReplyDeleteLet me bend your ear a bit, please. My theory about art. Art is not always about beauty, or even mainly about it, but it does often express or celebrate it. In our day-to-day lives, we can allow the setting of our experience to become habitual or monotonous or gray. Art, your art, can summon us to live again, to improve the quality of our life. Look back over all your photos and you'll see that they exercise our capacity not only to see but also to feel, to be emotionally moved, thus enhancing our membership in both the human and the natural community. Your prose and your photography, full of sadness, love, laughter, loss, harmony, etc. make us better at understanding self and others and the natural world - education of the sensibilities, a lifting of the heart. That makes you a teacher of the highest kind, Heather. Life can be disjointed, demanding, fragmented; your art, and not just the "beautiful" art, can unify us, can give us just what is missing. The parts fit together into a whole. I suspect you know this, Heather, but the experience of living for you is rich and when you convey that richness to us through your art, you make us better people. You make me a better person. The felt quality of your personal experience, as reflected in your art, speaks to me on a number of levels: the sensory, the intellectual, the emotional. Yes, Heather Peden as teacher.