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Photo looking towards the state of Oregon and captured on California Highway 161 at the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge in Siskiyou County. Far Northern California. "State of Jefferson." Late February 2013.
Photo captured from Trinidad State Beach in the city of Trinidad. Humboldt County. Mid September 2013.
Photo captured along the beach at Dry Lagoon. Humboldt Lagoons State Park. Humboldt County. Early May 2013.
Photo of Big Lagoon looking west (where the Pacific Ocean and lagoon are separated by a thin strip of land at the water horizon, and where the is on the other side of the water horizon) captured via Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D AF Nikkor lens on the Big Lagoon Bridge on U.S. Highway 101, the Redwood Highway, in the census-designated place of Big Lagoon. Humboldt County. Late October 2013.
Photo captured via ND8 filter off the Oregon Coast Highway, U.S. 101, at Humbug Mountain State Park in Curry County. State of Oregon. "State of Jefferson." 2013.
Photo captured along the beach at Ma-Le'L Dunes in the census-designated place of Manila. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
Photo captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 75-200mm f/4.5 lens from Samoa Beach in the census-designated place of Samoa. Humboldt County. Early November 2013.
Our character tries to find herself while the artist, Dani Shay performs her song, "So Easy, I know"
Photo captured at a cattle ranch along the Lost Coast via Mattole Road. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
Photo captured via Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D AF Nikkor lens near a cattle ranch and alongside Old Samoa Road in the city of Arcata. Humboldt County. Late September 2013.
Photo of Indian Tom Lake captured off Highway 161 near the Oregon State Line near Dorris in Far Northern California. Siskiyou County. Late February 2013.
Photo captured at a cattle ranch near the Lost Coast via Mattole Road. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
A wonderful day to not only enjoy the scenery before your very eyes and soul, but also to dial the necessary parameters on your camera and forever treasure that particular moment in time. Photo of False Klamath Cove captured off U.S. Highway 101, the Redwood Highway, in the town of Klamath. Del Norte County. "State of Jefferson." Early August 2013.
I do not create to decorate.
I create to enthrone.
I am not interested in art that apologizes for wanting too much. I do not want work that politely asks to be glanced at, half-felt, and forgotten. I want art that arrives with a pulse. Art that knows exactly what it is doing. Art that enters a room like a woman who does not need permission to be looked at and does not soften herself for the comfort of lesser eyes.
Beauty is too often treated like something passive. Consumable. Lightweight. Disposable. I reject that completely. Beauty, in its truest form, is force. It is gravity. It is command. It alters posture. It alters breathing. It has the power to humble, to provoke, to reorder the emotional atmosphere of everyone standing near it. That is the territory I care about. That is the territory I work in.
I am drawn to reverence—not as fragility, but as intensity. I want the language around an image to feel like tribute. I want a title to sound like the name of a feeling too large for ordinary speech. I want a subject to feel less like a person being observed and more like an event being survived. Not because I am interested in exaggeration for its own sake, but because I believe some forms of presence deserve to be met with awe rather than reduction.
My work lives where sensuality meets myth, where femininity meets power, where intimacy sharpens into symbolism. I do not separate softness from authority. I do not separate desire from meaning. I do not separate beauty from consequence. The things that move me most are the things that carry contradiction cleanly: tenderness with teeth, elegance with dominance, worship with hunger, divinity with a body still warm enough to touch.
And I do not create from a distance. I step inside the emotional weather of a piece until it speaks in the right voice. Then I refine it with intent. The result is not accidental. It is not trend-chasing bullshit. It is construction. It is mood made architectural. It is devotion given form.
I build themes, atmospheres, identities, and worlds for one reason: because some things deserve more than description.
They deserve ceremony.
Photo captured near the decommissioned Punta Gorda Lighthouse from the Fourmile Creek along the King Range via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens at Mattole River Beach on the Lost Coast. Humboldt County. Late November 2013.
"One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast.... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and expore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards!"
~ taken from "The Earth Speaks" by Edward Abbey
To all of my flickr friends and family,
Thank you! Although this year has had it ups and downs... and most of the events that have occurred this year will eventually be forgotten..... this one thing I can say for sure..... each of you have inspired me and have a special place in my heart. Thank you for blessing my 2006...... Best wishes for the New Year!!!
See you in 2007!!!!! Huge hugs and southern smiles! :)
Lindsay
Photo captured on northbound U.S. Highway 97 in the census-designated place of Macdoel. Siskiyou County. "State of Jefferson." Late February 2013.
Photo captured on California Highway 161 at the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge in Siskiyou County. Far Northern California. "State of Jefferson." Late February 2013.
Photo looking towards Trinidad captured from the Vista Point on U.S. Highway 101 in McKinleyville. Humboldt County. Late January 2013.
365 is really kicking my butt, I get behind and getting caught up is a pain. I think it's just the time of year, so many things to do so little time to do them in.
Photo captured on Mattole Road miles southwest of the city of Ferndale. On the way to the Lost Coast. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
Photo of Mount Shasta captured from the Shasta Valley Vista Point on Interstate 5. North of Yreka in Siskiyou County. Early January 2013.
Photo captured near Sierra Pacific Industries along the Mad River Slough and near the Mad River Slough Bridge off of Highway 255. Arcata. Humboldt County. Late August 2013.