Openings Connecting: Making Love with Light

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Making Love with Light

light is energy,

energy is enlightening.

the group settles:

six souls.

one brave one

begins our journey by

feeding us from Minor White,

Yasuhiro and Tichy~the tarzan that retired,

the creative spirit resurrected

from his confinement

stretching to ours.

we meet again in the morning

and settle into wooded waters...

the six of us ready to relax into

'making love with light'.

i step out into the night

looking for the moon

hidden behind the promise of snow

and

begin this new relationship.

the title is from the book

MAKING LOVE WITH LIGHT:

Contemplating Nature with Words and Photographs

by John Daido Loori

And reminding myself:

MY mountain light is wherever I am.

11 comments:

mansuetudeJanuary 12, 2012 at 7:52 AM
love this phrase--Making love with light.
Its a daily mediation.
thank you
ReplyDelete
Replies
nancy neva gaglianoJanuary 12, 2012 at 7:54 AM
it's the name of a book recommended for this session...and i ordered it last night.
ReplyDelete
Replies
layersJanuary 12, 2012 at 8:44 AM
I love the title of the book... I am going to look for it at Amazon.com... you are such a poet with words- always bringing "light" with them.. so you will be off with a group walking and taking photos it sounds like.. wonderful!
ReplyDelete
Replies
nancy neva gaglianoJanuary 12, 2012 at 8:55 AM
donna...it is wonderful to be part of a discussion and journey of the 'art spirit' in ourselves and in the world ... rather than just technical aspects of processing that scramble my brain. there'll be darkroom time, certainly, but not the focus...just the 'evidence' of the focus, which might be OUT OF FOCUS, and it'll all be ....WONDERFUL! x0
ReplyDelete
Replies
LauraJanuary 13, 2012 at 5:46 AM
gorgeous...I love this concept, this reality, it is what I feel when I take photos focused on light...pure love!!!
ReplyDelete
Replies
UnknownJanuary 14, 2012 at 8:35 AM
How wonderful! for most of us, nighttime is not a light filled photography expedition .... but you found it! and I love how YOUR mountain light is wherever you are :)

p.s. your own "rapt" stones have been an inspiration to me (re my meditative painted stones)
ReplyDelete
Replies
Jill ZaheerJanuary 14, 2012 at 10:18 PM
Just love your
"Mount light is where ever you are". Just breathtaking.
ReplyDelete
Replies
rivergardenstudioJanuary 15, 2012 at 9:39 AM
'I step out into the night, looking for the moon'.... the beauty of your words IS like a love poem. I love your joyousness as you begin...
roxanne
ReplyDelete
Replies
SethJanuary 15, 2012 at 8:38 PM
That last image is remarkable!
ReplyDelete
Replies
ArtPropelledJanuary 22, 2012 at 6:57 PM
Basking in the mountain light, finding the silver lining and enjoying your post and images.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Cynthia MonicaJanuary 24, 2012 at 3:35 PM
Really lovely post!
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

FOUR DIRECTIONS/FOUR VISIONS: Two Graces: First showing for me, JUNE 3, 2011

With no directions home, I found Taos in the late 60s. It felt like home immediately. It still does. I know this sentiment is familiar to countless others.

The mountain stopped me in my tracks, and I stayed for several years. Since that time, I circle back annually.

To me, that circle is symbolic of this body of work at Two Graces. This is a time in my life when I've been fortunate enough to experiment with art making. Not surprisingly, I found myself drawn back to the images in the Ektachrome slides that I'd taken in the early 80s of Chaco Canyon, the San Francisco de Asis Church, dusty roads, and the ever changing skies of Northern New Mexico. The spirit of this adobed land lingers in my core and manifests itself within these works.

This past Michigan winter was spent creating enlarged negatives from my thirty year old slides, pulling part of my past into the present via today's tools of scanner and computer. Using traditional silver-gelatin darkroom processes, these resurrected and modified negatives acquired a new life. The majority of these prints are the result of this mediated reincarnation.

The smaller images took me into photographic processes from the mid-1800s. These handmade platinum/palladium prints are created coating vellum, for translucency, with these metal salts and exposing them to ultraviolet light. They are then bathed in the alchemy of the darkroom. The tonal qualities are unique in each print. Finally, 24k gold is layered to the backs of the prints, emanating the warmth, glow, and depth of these beloved places.