Original capture on photographic negative (FILM)
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Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon that predisposes humans to decipher a face in patterns or inanimate objects. Some might say that it is evidence of paranoia, or a fear of being judged. I see faces all of the time when I am out photographing random patterns.
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This one called to me as a peering face emerging from a sponge patterned lava boulder. Watching for what? Any answer would lead to many paths. Since we all return to the earth perhaps it whispers, “See you later.”
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Original capture on photographic negative (FILM)
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Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon that predisposes humans to decipher a face in patterns or inanimate objects. Some might say that it is evidence of paranoia, or a fear of being judged. I see faces all of the time when I am out photographing random patterns.
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This one called to me as a peering face emerging from a sponge patterned lava boulder. Watching for what? Any answer would lead to many paths. Since we all return to the earth perhaps it whispers, “See you later.”
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Original capture on photographic negative (FILM)
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Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon that predisposes humans to decipher a face in patterns or inanimate objects. Some might say that it is evidence of paranoia, or a fear of being judged. I see faces all of the time when I am out photographing random patterns.
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This one called to me as a peering face emerging from a sponge patterned lava boulder. Watching for what? Any answer would lead to many paths. Since we all return to the earth perhaps it whispers, “See you later.”
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WHO AM I ?
I'm just a guy with a camera who is free to do what he wants with it. The journey to get here was long, sometimes brutal, but now I enjoy the freedom of artistic expression with no regard to hierarchical critique or approval. Freed from the need to comply in order to make a living, my personal ethos is self fulfillment. Yet my enjoyment is not selfish. I choose to share it.
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MISSION
Mystery from the ordinary. What does that mean? It is more than a simple catch phrase, although it works rather well as such. The ordinary is a subjective term. It is relative to one's position in the social hierarchy. Ordinary to the privileged elite is extraordinary to the common person. We all exist within the confines of society's parameters. Reality is understood through the eyes of the observer. Far be it from me to dictate to anyone what is real. Nonetheless, we must come to a point at which we agree to a reasonable assumption. Humans come together to find a midpoint at which we can coexist. When we fail, the alternatives are horrendous, if not brutal.
So what is normal? The plentiful is normal. For statisticians, what exists in the middle of a bell curve is normal. Normalcy is all around us. Many of us tend to ignore it. I prefer to look into normalcy in order to discover the mystery of subconscious visualization. The conscious mind is shackled by the rules of society. However, the great thinkers of history were guided by the reactive mind. They allowed the subconscious to bleed through into a real-time sense of being. Epiphanies bleed through into our conscious minds to lead us along a path of enlightenment, that is, if we are willing to listen to the inner voice while subduing the societal voice.
I am not an antisocial. If we are to live together we must be somewhat social. My point is, if one is gravitated to the artistic wing of society then one must acknowledge the free will of the subconscious. I release my photographic expression through my subconscious mind, sometimes deliberately, other times by benign chance. This is therapy for me. If it touches others in a good way so be it. If all of us leave this life after turning a single pebble on its end, then we have changed the world. In time a whisper might move a continent.
Self Portrait, 2017
