American Beauty: A Photographer’s Focus on Industry
“The taste for the useful predominates over the love of the beautiful in the heart of man,” writes Alexis de Tocqueville at the opening…
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The Possibility of Art in Ordinary Moments
We photograph ourselves, our families and the details of our lives with a kind of frequency unknown through human history. Photographic capturing techniques are…
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Environmental Art and a New Creation: Marlene Creates’ Art of Place
Environmental art has become commonplace in today’s art world. Where we have constant threat to species survival, unpredictable weather patterns, or overuse of resources,…
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Ambivalent Anticipation: Advent
This is the first week of a new year; the new liturgical year, that is. But in the face of the end of civic calendar…
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The Prophetic Power of Alexa Meade’s Living Portraits
A favourite poster of mine, and one that has accompanied me half way around the world, is Sea-Dancer by the futurist Gino Severini, painted…
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The Meaning of a Photograph?
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to…
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Will History’s Photograph Continue to be Archivable?
In the past week, I’ve scanned almost 1000 photographs and historical documents. Some of them date back to the turn of the 20th century….
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The Art of Preserves
Sounds, tastes, and smells have the ability to transform a moment into a kind of transportation device into our memories. We can be transported…
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The Art of Dying
Elsa Dorfman has a poignant series of photographs. Photographs that inspire and challenge. Photographs of people who know they are dying soon. Elsa Dorfman…
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