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Tumbleweeds racing around the desert landscape are a familiar, windy day spring scene. I have watched herds of them hip-hopping across the back field like jack rabbits. And like jack rabbits, they are prolific and efficient reproducers.
There has been so much in the course of recent human events which has been unspeakably disruptive. Outside of the news cycle, the earth and it's non-human inhabitants keep turning and finding ways around.
Yesterday I took a drive out to Needles, Canyonlands south district and only heard one car and saw another that followed me out of the park. I encountered no other humans during my visit. The place I wanted to hike was covered with snow so I chose a different spot to hunt for ice and play with the stark contrasts of winter snow and shadows. When I arrived back at the parking lot, a raven was standing on the pavement and did not fly away at my approach. I opened the driver's door and was immediately buzzed by another raven who landed just behind me. I gave them both a few crumbs from my lunch which they scrambled for and gobbled up. The buzzer even caught the morsels in mid-air. When I turned my back for more he flew up to perch on the car door where he proceeded to catch morsels in mid-air, leaving the misses to the missus, who cringed at his lunges.
There are many Native American stories about ravens and their powers, spirits, and antics. They are known for their cunning and resourcefulness.
As I was playing around with this image in #mirror_lab, the raven seemed to punch through the light as if he's walking through and into his own shadow transforming the shattered light into a platform for what's to come.
Maybe that was his message.
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da collage dat i used to surface texture da 3D mandelbroit fractal
tuning into da quantum waves
intelligence energy sparkin da electrons in our brains
entanglement wit da ancient AKASHIC Record
insight n foresight
code is embedded in da fabric of da cosmos
now we know what ta create
WE ARE DIGITAL
My image making is not about the representation of a particular subject or scene. For me, it's about the discovery of the poetry in the camera's language of light. I look for color and movement and patterns then dance with my camera to listen to the light. The poem itself often holds its voice and rhythm until I tease it out with Lightroom or it hits me upside the head when checking for spots in Photoshop. The poem in words is often simply the title alone inviting the viewer to travel to other worlds within the image and beyond.
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Oil series: Coalinga Oil Fields, California, USA, 2018 (200 x 100 cm - 80 x 40 inch, or 150 x 75 cm - 60 x 34 inch)
© 2018 Bart van Damme
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