My Quest for Light

 

 

For years, I traveled the world and sought the meaning of life through the photographic act, an act of light. I crossed oceans, deserts, and mountains to reach the sacred places that have inspired my life and my art work. I set off for ancient temples, staying up all night with their guardians to receive candlelit transmissions of their most intimate prayers. 

 

With my daughter’s illness, life forced me to change my vision of things, my vision of life and the experience of it. Light, with its infinite shades, gifted me with new creative inspiration.

 

One morning, dawn streaked itself in rose-tinged powder blues, immersing me in its glow. A surrealist, stunning landscape opened before me. Sky and sea had merged. My entire being was soaked in a supremely gentle vastness. I experienced light in the depths of my being. It was my first experience of being steeped in the color of a landscape.

 

As I contemplated it, I became the landscape.  

     

I had become the light I saw, it was everywhere in my body and mind.

 

Since then, I look for this state of grace in every landscape to compose my photographs. The subtle perception of grace transpires in each of the photographic “contemplative windows” of  "Lightscapes" series.

 

What I am revealing is my vision of the world in its most intimate and subtle essence, one that touches upon sensitive and vibrational perceptions. More than a vision of our world, or of a particular world, my work is an experience of the world. 

 

Ocean landscapes conceal another beauty, a universe arising from colors and lights, a “landscaped,” shared essence stripped of any narration or form.  Only light matters, light as the very origin of color and of the landscapes it generates. And thus, I return to the origin of my photographic quest: to experience life…  in its essence, in its vibration, in its truth. 

 

It is definitely a question of perception and openness.