ode to townes

this photography thing is often quite a mysterious experience for me.

there are more than a few times when i've created an image -

that is, shot a picture and then processed it -

without processing any of the sort like intention, meaning, message.

 

let's use the word mystical, shall we? because what recurrently happens is i will tweak a photo

(like this one) bit by bit by bit, without knowing what i'm trying to do/say/depict -

without having a clue on where i'm going - only knowing once i get there,

or pretty darn close to "there".

 

and then, i'll put it here on my stream privately at first, to look it over, imagine it being seen by another. and sometimes even before i know it i'll think of something important, amusing, interesting to me - something perhaps revealing, amusing, edifying to you -

and i'll find i might have something to say about something,

either with my own words, or a song that i'll link to.

 

tonight i watched the documentary about townes van zandt, be here to love me.

and during the watching, i suddenly felt compelled to find a photo to show you

what he and his music made me feel.

 

here's even more about the mysterious part: sometimes a photo i take will sit in wait for me,

waiting for musing, the muse of discovery, to uncover its purpose. but i won't know that see,

until i'm thinking of something, or watching a film, or listening to a song.

 

like this shot - the song waiting around to die started playing and i hurried to find this photo.

that song sings of this photo, of that macrocosm of one droplet of water

on the tippy edge of a tiny leaf in all the vastness of life on this earth; like each of us.

 

and here's another mystery: i'm not claiming that all of the words of that song,

and all the fractals of this image equate with one another, complete one another -

because they don't! and it doesn't all make sense to me!

but it feels/seems "right", even as the pieces present themselves

at variance, even dissonant perhaps, like a countryfolkblues git-tar song about death

juxtaposed with a photo so full of essential elemental green and liquid life.

 

these pieces of image, sound, thought, feeling, meaning & purpose

all drift, circle, swirl around in that liminal place, between my sub- and conscious-ness,

until they click, meld, synch together

here.

 

i live for this knowing and unknowing wrapped around one another,

beginnings and endings and beginnings again,

clarity and haze,

yin and yang.

 

i learn so much from this, through this,

from

through

this .....

Done