Winter Sunset on the Tamar IV
"The light fades but the gods remain."
I could have borrowed that title from Australia's premier artistic photographer, Bill Henson. I encourage you to check out the links below to his exhibition and book. Whilst his evocative work emphasizes shadows and darkness, there's enough light there to suggest a Presence that remains. The book is wonderful by the way.
In this photograph I am attempting to create a similar mood. If you enlarge this one and lose yourself inside the scene you'll see some fragments of light - and civilisation(?). That's the Launceston Grammar School on the top of the hill to the right. But in the end, darkness overwhelms our human works. And yet... and yet, the Light remains hidden only to reappear in the dawn. The philosophical term for that is "Anatheism". The idols will fall and we wait for the emergence of True Spirit.
photobookjournal.com/2020/04/06/bill-henson-the-light-fad...
www.roslynoxley9.com.au/exhibition/the-light-fades-but-th...
Winter Sunset on the Tamar IV
"The light fades but the gods remain."
I could have borrowed that title from Australia's premier artistic photographer, Bill Henson. I encourage you to check out the links below to his exhibition and book. Whilst his evocative work emphasizes shadows and darkness, there's enough light there to suggest a Presence that remains. The book is wonderful by the way.
In this photograph I am attempting to create a similar mood. If you enlarge this one and lose yourself inside the scene you'll see some fragments of light - and civilisation(?). That's the Launceston Grammar School on the top of the hill to the right. But in the end, darkness overwhelms our human works. And yet... and yet, the Light remains hidden only to reappear in the dawn. The philosophical term for that is "Anatheism". The idols will fall and we wait for the emergence of True Spirit.
photobookjournal.com/2020/04/06/bill-henson-the-light-fad...
www.roslynoxley9.com.au/exhibition/the-light-fades-but-th...