Lucia:thank you ... but i want to ask, urgently, SUCH AS??? ... i grasp your shoulders and ask, what? what? what do you reflect about??? i want to know!!
i like this one so much... i am even tempted to imagine: the entire world fading away, disappearing, for this one perfect moment of complete balance to be born... would i be sorry for the rest, then? i can't be sure i would -
of course, this is a western way of approaching it - for a taoist, for example, there wouldn't be anything else except a constant flow, with such perfect moments of balance surging and submerging constantly, like waves ;-)
Roxana: i think i am more inclined to see a taoist flow in things, and perhaps that is what i have meant by my long, seeming instinctual, wish to disappear into some kind of fading light -- not death so much as releasing the idea that any stasis is possible. but then, what is photography? do we always create the illusion of balance, of a moment that has stopped and become real? or perhaps no, we wish to photograph the disappearance of things, and this loss we feel is a paradox, it is our anxiety when we return to the image and discover that the girl, the flower, the self is still there... photography is a constant tension between balance and flow??
I'm glad you changed the title James. This picture was more than just balance, but that we seem to flow in and out of balance, or are we always striving for balance?
By the way, nice picture :)) Ha! there I said it!!
they aren't static, are they? none of us are inside of this continual movement to obtain some form of balance.
ReplyDelete(i love the black and the white of their clothing creating a visual balance, the world dissolving around them, even under foot while steps are taken.)
xo
erin
erin: they change continually, a new world every day. they teach me change and permanence :-)
ReplyDeleteYour posts make me reflect about many things James... ;-)
ReplyDeleteLucia: thank you ... but i want to ask, urgently, SUCH AS??? ... i grasp your shoulders and ask, what? what? what do you reflect about??? i want to know!!
ReplyDeletei like this one so much... i am even tempted to imagine: the entire world fading away, disappearing, for this one perfect moment of complete balance to be born... would i be sorry for the rest, then? i can't be sure i would -
ReplyDeleteof course, this is a western way of approaching it - for a taoist, for example, there wouldn't be anything else except a constant flow, with such perfect moments of balance surging and submerging constantly, like waves ;-)
Roxana: i think i am more inclined to see a taoist flow in things, and perhaps that is what i have meant by my long, seeming instinctual, wish to disappear into some kind of fading light -- not death so much as releasing the idea that any stasis is possible. but then, what is photography? do we always create the illusion of balance, of a moment that has stopped and become real? or perhaps no, we wish to photograph the disappearance of things, and this loss we feel is a paradox, it is our anxiety when we return to the image and discover that the girl, the flower, the self is still there... photography is a constant tension between balance and flow??
ReplyDeletequestions with no answers, of course :-)
I'm glad you changed the title James. This picture was more than just balance, but that we seem to flow in and out of balance, or are we always striving for balance?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, nice picture :)) Ha! there I said it!!
hugs, liz
Liz: perhaps we always strive for balance, and we are lucky that we never quite achieve it ... what would that be? who could survive such a thing?
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