the tracks lead to nowhere..
Friday, October 29, 2010
Comparisons...
I strive for comparisons and juxtapositions in my photography...take my cue from Marcel Proust as translated by Jack Kerouac, I am to capture and portray the consciousness in the moment and how fleeting that moment is....so here's a study of Pinecliff Sanctuary in the Qua over two seasons...
As you can see this was in early July and the vegetation is thick green and lush and pregnant with life but if you switch to this moment which happens to be the end of October you'll see the spectacular colors of fall...
As you can see this was in early July and the vegetation is thick green and lush and pregnant with life but if you switch to this moment which happens to be the end of October you'll see the spectacular colors of fall...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
This bar....
This bar has had many names...I've left there in many states of mind as well...and I have seen it in many states of natures...somettimes the moon can be glowing magically above it while the town sleeps at night..
There Used to be..
There used to be this huge over growth there...back in the day raja and I bought beer from dagastinos when it was the grand union and we went back there and got wasted while raja told me about the 13th zodiac...then the owner of Peabodies, whch had been Mullanes, cut it down...he sold the bar which is now called Quaker Tavern Inn...and the shrubbery grows back...
Angelic...
This playground run by the church at St. Mary's is angelic in the spring when the light hits it just right...
No longer...
This wetland is no longer....the pond which I had grown up with was bulldozed over two months ago....america appreicates nothing...progress they say.....just like4 the bombs in afghanistan...the finincial analysts of this imperviisou to anything but thier own greed...
If...
if you take the time and hide in the cracks of reality you might get to see something interesting..
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Sept. 19, 2007..
my journey into the light...this picture from three years ago...the last day of summer right before the autumn equinox...the magical light int he greeley woods...
Where....
Where the Saw Mill River starts...down from the old Greeley dam..where lew is right now...magic...deep in the imagination....he has asked me to join hiim and I am tempted but I was there last night...I am comfortable here in the house...the crickets outside singing in the night....this thick summer like night...
When..
When I still had a bike I would ride out to rockwood like have done since the late 70's...here's the spot I would come and write poetry and read obscure books...this is from the summer last year...the grass is lush and the atmosphere thick heavy....
Retreat...
As the culture turned right wing I retreated into the woods and the light....theories of emerson, joihn burroughs, walt whimatn, n henry miller...my idos...I find them there...it's lush now onthi slate october night...crickets out humming...thick sexualtity in the air...time moving so fast now...
Retreat...
As the culture turned right wing I retreated into the woods and the light....theories of emerson, joihn burroughs, walt whimatn, n henry miller...my idos...I find them there...it's lush now onthi slate october night...crickets out humming...thick sexualtity in the air...time moving so fast now...
Travelling...
Travelling through time...this picture from may 09.....green lush leaves at the Glazier parking lot...it's now fall and the same picuture is golden leaves...
Light and color...
Light and color driven by madness I escape into the fall beauty of Glazier park...the old beatnick themes driving me into the subime beauty of the woods...a state of mind unfolding...conscioiusness in the moment...the frame of reference with society long ago broken with society I create my own frame..
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Renaldo and Clara.wmv
We used to dream about seeing this movie Renaldo and Clara....I was only sixteen at the time...Katie was 19....I was the young kid then with the rock n' roll image....I loved smoking pot and then banging katie in her college dorm room over at Purchase...see had those great big breast and no qualms about srpeading her legs...
In the fall light...
in the fall light I came upon a butter fly that I had crashed to the earth...there were little ants starting to devour it...for the most part it was still in perfect condition....I picked it up and placed it on the bench that I had placed in the woods...the light was coming down in a great golden twilight...I was a bit amazed to see that a monarch was still around at the end of october...it's majestic wings radiating in the the golden light...
Friday, October 15, 2010
The Picuresque Beauty of Central Park
Ever since I took John Conron's class at Clark on the picuresque beauty of Central Park I have returned many times to immerse myself in this aesthetic...as the world turns faster and people become lost in the noise of the cellphone rush and the nature of ideas are obliterated, I see more and more in Olmstead's vision...this was very much the case to as I was reading Dylan in america...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Garbrielle's Church...
I've been walking by Gabrielle's church for decades...built by Horace Greeley's daughter Gabrielle to console her giref over the death of her daughter, St. Mary's is an angelic churhc with wonderful bells which I have been using for years to tell the time..
Investigation..
In my investigation of the local I took the time to stop by firehouse's open house which they hold every October..
Monday, October 4, 2010
Autumn from last year..
landscape in america...a revolutionary act....with all these foreclosures and the general tendency of american to move relentlessy or the fact that most people view nature at the ten feet from their front door to their car or passing by the window on the train to their job...
icon...
the dome of reader's digest has been an icon in my life for decades...it reminds me of washington crossing the delaware by larry rivers....
No longer here..
This is no longer here....they tore up for a parking lot...just like the unions I am watching on democracy now....progress...and down at the board meeting people flapped their gums about the reader digest development but said nothing about this location beiing ripped up...
Central Park...
Here's a shot of Central Park at the very end of winter and a day or so before spring....I just watched a talk on the history of conservatism on cpan taped at the american enterprise institute....this after mixing a townboard meeing on the reader's digest development...
Sunday, October 3, 2010
This set...
This set of pictures expresses where my personal vision these days...it combines a juxtaposition between city and country with an investigation of the local...
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