Thanks so much, Miri. You are too kind. Often with this stuff, I’m just following my gut. Taking pictures that I think are trash at the time, but still following that impulse to grab the camera and image “that!”. Often I think the images a trash for quite a while after I take them. Like months. But I leave them. And sometimes….jsut sometimes…a frame of reference grows as a place for the image(s) (my finger was trying to type “frame of reverence”! I think I like that!).
Thanks so much for stopping by.
It is really nice to see you round again–if I didn’t already say that.
If that is the result of “thinking the images are trash and leaving them be”, then please… keep that habit up. Beautiful 😁 Beautiful,beautiful work.
It is good to see you, too. I don’t habe time or the mindset to write much these days, but I usually pop in a couple of times a year to visit and write a bit. Still fobdly remember the “Iron Poets”… that was a great time. See you around 😊
BTW, I was digging through some notes and came across this quote that made me think of you, and not just because your name, in French means “god” (Have we spoken of this before? I feel like we have…). But also because there is something of this “nothing” that I read in your work as well.
“Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.”
“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”
~~Paul Valery
Not a bad thing at all.
For me, he is speaking of a very positive kind of negativity, if that makes sense? Something along the lines of Keats’ “negative capability”. I feel that it is this connection with “nothing” that gives the poet their power.
That’s so incredibly kind of you to say! I do love the poetry of both Valery and Keats. Yes, it does make sense. I feel that poetry is best when it expresses the spaces where nothing is happening externally but so much internally.
A Prayer Like Gravity 
You have such an interesting perspective of things – a beautiful mind at work. Really cool, JC… love the fleeting moment you captured here.
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Thanks so much, Miri. You are too kind. Often with this stuff, I’m just following my gut. Taking pictures that I think are trash at the time, but still following that impulse to grab the camera and image “that!”. Often I think the images a trash for quite a while after I take them. Like months. But I leave them. And sometimes….jsut sometimes…a frame of reference grows as a place for the image(s) (my finger was trying to type “frame of reverence”! I think I like that!).
Thanks so much for stopping by.
It is really nice to see you round again–if I didn’t already say that.
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If that is the result of “thinking the images are trash and leaving them be”, then please… keep that habit up. Beautiful 😁 Beautiful,beautiful work.
It is good to see you, too. I don’t habe time or the mindset to write much these days, but I usually pop in a couple of times a year to visit and write a bit. Still fobdly remember the “Iron Poets”… that was a great time. See you around 😊
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fondly, not fobdly. Meh. 😉
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I agree with Miriam’s comment, you just have a unique viewpoint on our world, it’s fascinating.
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Aw, shucks……
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Thanks T.
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And I’m just so glad you’re back!
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That’s super-nice to hear, my friend. Thanks.
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Now we just put a piece together and see what happens.
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I think the moral of the story here is… sometimes it’s better not to look to deeply into something B-)
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Ach! Too late! Old habit now. Sometimes it’s all I know to do…..makes life interesting.
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Hahaha. Well to be honest I’m the same!
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Beautiful atmosphere, Johnny. I like the way the images progress from top to bottom.
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Thank you, Lynn. I stewed (as I usually do) over the order for quite some time….
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Such beautiful images. I especially love the first one.
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Thank you so much Dieu. I think that one is my favorite too.
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BTW, I was digging through some notes and came across this quote that made me think of you, and not just because your name, in French means “god” (Have we spoken of this before? I feel like we have…). But also because there is something of this “nothing” that I read in your work as well.
“Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.”
“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”
~~Paul Valery
Not a bad thing at all.
For me, he is speaking of a very positive kind of negativity, if that makes sense? Something along the lines of Keats’ “negative capability”. I feel that it is this connection with “nothing” that gives the poet their power.
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That’s so incredibly kind of you to say! I do love the poetry of both Valery and Keats. Yes, it does make sense. I feel that poetry is best when it expresses the spaces where nothing is happening externally but so much internally.
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…and there is always something happening internally, isn’t there….?
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