The Sacred Feminine and Flower, Seed, Stalk

As always, trying to type is a pain in the neck (literally). So just quick notes-my current choir director, David, introduced me to this awesome medieval doctor of the church Hildegard von Bingen.  She is awesome. We have also been talking about the sacred feminine. All of this ties in really well with my artwork, of course. So this evening on my way home from work. I was listening to an album called Canticles of Ecstasy and was captured particularly by the sense of motion in them and had the idea to create these images. So when I got home I did and here are just a few early ones...  These are Hipstamatic prints. I also used my canon to create some but those are still waiting to be edited.

They are still part of the larger work Flower, Seed, Stalk but may be a subsection more specifically inspired by Hildegard.

Photo Meditation

i was doing (trying to do) a short ten-minute meditation with headspace this morning and there was this piece of twine i have hanging around a lamp and it was backlit against the wall and it was soooo beautiful so i ended up looking at it most of the time and obsessing about photographing it and then i ended 28 seconds early to take some shots. here's one; i'm going to do more when i get home. so simple, so light, so many sculptural possibilities. i think that photo meditation counts for SOMETHING, right?

Early Fall Panoramas

Me!!

That's me in the backseat of a car (boo not driving) on the road trip to Laredo from San Antone... iPhone camera in hand, Canon on the lap. All day everyday. Oh yeah.

"Garlic scapes"

I placed garlic scapes in quotes because I didn't know that was the name of them before I got them. These I did not grow; I got them at the farmers market on the Capitol lawn in Lansing, just down the street from my office. It was a glorious day actually.

This is a Hipstamatic print, with the contrast bumped up in CameraBag.

Hot Tamales

A pepper in hand

Is worth ten in a bush?

Peppers

... So... this is a picture of some peppers on a surface that I cannot reveal because that would be like giving away the secret... CameraBag 2 filter called Silver.

More of Tomato shoot

The past two posts feature the Most Amazing Tomato - the first of my Mi garden tomatoes. I loved it. I love it. It ultimately had to be cut and uSed, but some of it is still in the fridge. Luckily I photographed the heck out of it for several days.

Tomato

For some reason I feel very foolish writing words to go with the photographs. Perhaps that is why I do not have a writing blog!! Rest assured that there is a handwritten journal to accompany the process of completing the project, and that some parts of it will eventually go into the Artist's Statement... despite the fact that half the time I find artists' statements to be extremely annoying.

I love almost everything about this photograph except for a few details of composition due it to its having been an improvisational shot. I might need to try shooting it again to get rid of said details, but then it may feel less authentic.

Probably the most interesting thing with this self-portrait project is when I shift between iPhone and shooting with my DSLR. With the iPhone, you get greater intimacy and closer framing as well as the ability to see the photograph before shooting - the inability of which with the regular camera is part of what makes self-portraits difficult. As I have remarked many times (though admittedly probably mostly in my head) I really enjoy the immediacy and greater casualness you can get from the iPhone in all kinds of circumstances.

And you gotta love the distortion!!