IT'S ALL A BLUR
How many times a day do you step over or around something on the sidewalk without giving the object any thought? I do it constantly, and mostly because my mind is elsewhere, either reveling in a memory or plotting some future move. What if our focus was on the moment in front of us, in all its intriguing particularities? Instead of trying to get away from where we happen to be--the cause of so much contemporary unease--we sink into it. As soon as I began to think about this, there was an interesting shift in my awareness: so many things around me moved from the background to the foreground, and moments that had been rushing passed slowed down. A torn and weathered poster on the side of a building had the most gorgeous colors; a home security camera dangling from a roof appeared to me like a large eye. I'm not a photographer, but I pulled out my camera anyway and started taking pictures of all sorts of things I'd never really noticed. I used a special app to blur each item in order to draw my attention (and the viewer's) even more closely, to highlight the qualities of these things that all of us step over and around every day. Not surprisingly, taking these photos has taught me to slow way down and to stay right where I am, for at least a little longer, seeing more than I ever imagined was there.
This is an ongoing series of images that I began taking in 2017. Prints available in various sizes. Email for more images and prices: [email protected]
This is an ongoing series of images that I began taking in 2017. Prints available in various sizes. Email for more images and prices: [email protected]
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