Shadows are great. You can walk right through them. You can feel them pass over you like a cool hand. They are the space an object blocks from a source of light, […]
Thinking with Shadows
Aster: Queen of Many Worlds
Asters love the woodland and asters love the shore. Here’s some in the pine grass. What asters really love at this time of year is a bit of shade. Long after the […]
Light and Shadow Going on Forever
Light is very interesting to humans, but so is the lack of light. Here is some of both I found under an elm. I’m intrigued by the idea that this shade is […]
Starlings Bring the Night
Someone has to. Daly Mountain, Similkameen Valley
Wasps: Workers in the Furnace of the Sun
It takes a particle of light 100,000 years to rise from the core of the sun to its surface, eight minutes to make it to Earth, and no time at all to complete […]
Environmental Poetics
If sun … Trembling Aspen … or shade … Jerusalem Artichoke … were continuous … Saskatoon … or even divided … … there would be no life.They act as a […]
The Magic of Shade and Shadows
Shade is defined as the effect that comes when something blocks the sun. Fair enough. All shade is not equal, though. Here are, in no particular order, choke cherry shade … … […]
Freeing Photography from the 19th Century Image
Photography got its beginnings as a way of casting onto a chemically treated glass plate an image of the shadows between rays of light. That was magic for the Age of Art, […]
Walking in the Sun
In the post-marxist cultural world of contemporary art (don’t fool yourself, it exists outside of North Korea), the sun on the saskatoon bush below is not considered art, nor is the moment […]
