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Artist | John Opera (b.1975 in USA)
Title | C-2 (2010)
anthotype
9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inch
Exhibitor | Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Exhibition | Captured Earth
mocp.emuseum.com/objects/12019/c2
John Opera makes photographs in the spirit of transcendentalism, the idea of emphasizing the importance of the individual soul and promoting a form of self-knowledge that can be acquired by experiencing divinity directly through nature. His lush landscapes and entrancing abstractions are made to co-exist but also to affect one another in a push-and-pull of form and content, surface and depth, specificity and elusiveness. His landscapes can deliver powerful depictions of nature; yet for all their picturesque quality, they are not always spectacular. Opera’s landscapes are not intended to communicate the grandeur of nature in the tradition of the European Romantic painters. Rather, like the American Transcendentalists, Opera goes to nature for inspiration, exploring the power of the mundane to elicit a feeling of interiority and an awareness of the subjectivity of experience. He then sets up a dialectic between representational and abstract work as a vehicle for expressing these broader concerns, as a way to probe the powerful links between emotion, intellect, and perception.
Imagination is a huge part of Transcendentalism. It makes the life that you want or you wish for.:
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Walt whitman. ca. 1860-65. Grey eyes. No description about his eye colour found on the web. Contemporary paintings have shown blue, grey versions. By Mathew Brady.
‘fly fly fly’ 2021
52 x 30 cm
Sculptural outcome from my Final project ‘Inducement into Transcendentalism’ last year.
Modelled from a picture of myself.
Photos from before firing and glaze.
I could mention that Walden Pond was where Henry David Thoreau wrote his novel Walden, a seminal work of Transcendentalist literature. But, in the spirit of transcendentalism, I will just mention that the sky was clear and the stars were shining and the woods were quiet and the sand clung to my camera tripod. Live in the moment, then take photos so you can live in that moment forever.
Personally, I’m learning that I’m something of an intercessor by trade. Im also a huge prayer journaler where I speak my mind and give God the opportunity to respond in kind, so this prayer is not about doing away with conversation.
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What it is about though, is the power of being with God as a form of continual prayer. There’s a way, I feel, that we can remain open to him so that our rhythms of breathing become an open line, a harmony, and a sweet song of prayer.
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It’s not mindfulness or transcendentalism, but an awareness and a position of thankfulness and divine acknowledgement of the present person of God.
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I used to put prayer into tidy corners of my day, now that communion is priority I’ve discovered I can’t get away from God. I’m either praying consciously or siting with him where he is unconsciously. Both are the privilege of prayer.