Posts tagged landscape

“I like long distance running, it’s like photography in some ways. I think anytime you’re in solitude for three or four hours and physically pressed, your mind tends to be liberated somewhat. I just find that I wander off into my own world.” [excerpt from alone with michael kenna; interesting interview here] Michael Kenna, Full Moonrise, Chausey Islands, France, 2007 (+)

“I like long distance running, it’s like photography in some ways. I think anytime you’re in solitude for three or four hours and physically pressed, your mind tends to be liberated somewhat. I just find that I wander off into my own world.”

[excerpt from alone with michael kenna; interesting interview here]

Michael Kenna, Full Moonrise, Chausey Islands, France, 2007 (+)

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (1943), Chapter XXI (quoted from here; an interesting article here) Minor White, Devil’s Slide, San Mateo County, California, 1948  [The Eye That Shapes, p. 120]

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (1943), Chapter XXI

(quoted from here; an interesting article here)

Minor White, Devil’s Slide, San Mateo County, California, 1948 

[The Eye That Shapes, p. 120]

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.” — John Ruskin

S. Gayle Stevens, 5 & 6, Wet plate collodion, 2012 [interviews; *, +]

“Like most land art, the Spiral Jetty is a part of its landscape and its affected by the elements: It exists to eventually erode under natural conditions. Since its creation, the jetty has been completely covered and uncovered by water several times, being dependent on fluctuating water levels.” [some information about “spiral jetty” series here; his films] Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah; Photos by Stu Jenks

“Like most land art, the Spiral Jetty is a part of its landscape and its affected by the elements: It exists to eventually erode under natural conditions. Since its creation, the jetty has been completely covered and uncovered by water several times, being dependent on fluctuating water levels.”

[some information about “spiral jetty” series here; his films]

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah; Photos by Stu Jenks

“As a boy of 12 years old I wanted to see the world that I looked at in magazines as Life: far away, large, not easy to reach. But that all changed in the last decades. Now it’s easy travel around the world and one of the consequences is, that many places start to look like each other. That’s the tragic way of progress. I have to capture the old before it vanishes.” [some information about him *; more here] Aernout Overbeeke, Photobook: Ndoto Tanzania Dream #4, 2011 (+)

“As a boy of 12 years old I wanted to see the world that I looked at in magazines as Life: far away, large, not easy to reach. But that all changed in the last decades. Now it’s easy travel around the world and one of the consequences is, that many places start to look like each other. That’s the tragic way of progress. I have to capture the old before it vanishes.”

[some information about him *; more here]

Aernout Overbeeke, Photobook: Ndoto Tanzania Dream #4, 2011 (+)

“Dorothy Napangardi tells detailed, important stories in exquisite paintings. These extraordinary works may appear to be intricate black and white abstractions, but for Napangardi and her people they recount the stories of Jukurrpa, or Dreaming, which prescribes laws, moral codes and rules for dealing with the environment.” “In a way it reminded me of Auntie Emily Kngwarreye’s work, the way she put down her Yam (Dreaming); same idea. Not same dreaming - Dorothy has different Dreaming - same idea in a way, but different Dreaming… . Not same brushstroke, different stroke. Dorothy painting always reminds me of women dancing, really in formation, dancing for ceremony.” — Kathleen Petyarre Dorothy Napangardi, Sandhills, Acrylic on linen [a video of her painting process here (part 1 of 3); image source *]

“Dorothy Napangardi tells detailed, important stories in exquisite paintings. These extraordinary works may appear to be intricate black and white abstractions, but for Napangardi and her people they recount the stories of Jukurrpa, or Dreaming, which prescribes laws, moral codes and rules for dealing with the environment.”

“In a way it reminded me of Auntie Emily Kngwarreye’s work, the way she put down her Yam (Dreaming); same idea. Not same dreaming - Dorothy has different Dreaming - same idea in a way, but different Dreaming… . Not same brushstroke, different stroke. Dorothy painting always reminds me of women dancing, really in formation, dancing for ceremony.” — Kathleen Petyarre

Dorothy Napangardi, Sandhills, Acrylic on linen

[a video of her painting process here (part 1 of 3); image source *]