Between Reality and Dreamland

Quisisana – here one is healed.

“My interest in photography has something to do with the aesthetic, and that there should be a little beauty in everything”       

                                                                                                Imogen Cunningham

“When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind.  In our minds there is awareness of perfection”

                                                                                  Agnes Martin

The above quotes inspire and delight me.  The world is full of wondrous things.   Light, shape, form, space - these things are all around us and I want to understand them all and capture them to share with the world.  I want to be aware of what is around the corner – see the shapes and shadows, see the colours and forms, see the patterns, light and shade.  See not what is there, but see the possibilities of what could be there.  

“Somewhere unseen, the sadness of a bird, a single song in the hugeness of the sky and suddenly you do not matter, here beyond the normal and the everyday, the old enslavement of the hours – you have escaped to breath a different kind of light”

                                           Kenneth Steven, Choice from the Spirit of the Hebrides

In my garden I breath a different kind of light.  I have a calm space, a meditation in nature and the ability to appreciate time, fragility and power of flowers.  Nature has been the inspiration for photographers since the invention of the camera.  Since Anna Atkins first made her book of botanical images and Imogen Cunningham captured the essence of flowers, we have been photographing nature in all her beauty.  I, too, am attracted by the simplicity and allure of nature and from it find my inspiration.