Water
I strive to go beyond the visible to what is felt and not seen.
If the spiritual in painting is an expression of a greater reality found within, then in photography it can also be a celebration of what is without.
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Inspirational quotes and poetry
'...Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,
Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop’d
I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.'
Walt Whitman
'You can let a drop of water run between your finger and thumb, and just rub it, just make it disappear, and yet this is the single most powerful element on earth.
We rely on it for our daily survival. It shapes out entire landscape, all our life on earth is dependent on this element, which can be so transient and can just disappear in an instant and yet can wreak such havoc.
I think like many people I’m drawn to the sounds of the seas and the oceans, because they have such a beautiful, rich, harmonic, rhythmic structure to them. And I’m sure this harps back to something fundamental, pre-natal in us all perhaps; this ebb and flow of water.'
Chris Watson
British wildlife sound recordist
from Water song, BBC Radio 4, 28/08/06
Water from the thawed-out snow
Trickles to streamlets far below;
Joining with rivers strong and free
It pours at last into the sea.
It loitered not among the hedges,
Nor hung in rainbows over ledges;
It kissed the pebbles as it went,
And yet to go it was content.
Oh keep like water in its flow
The pristine purity of snow;
With deeper currents, swifter streams,
Descending through our lands of dreams.
Loiter in no stagnant pool,
Though mossy banks are green and cool;
Sport not long with flags and flowers,
Or swallows in the willow-bowers.
The sea our goal, the snow our source
Such is our appointed course,
Flowing with sunbeam-spangled motion
Calmly to the moonlit ocean.
Sangarakshita
Water from the Thawed-Out Snow