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Imagine standing on a mountaintop with a three hundred and sixty-degree view…
I was on that Catskill Mountain in Delaware County seven years ago. I photographed the beginning, middle and end of this intensely dramatic storm and the images and physical experience have haunted me ever since. There was not one moment when the storm overtook the sun and sky. Not even the white clouds, destined to become some other thing, were consumed. Instead, the dark and the light formed a perfect partnership for a few short moments to dance around in and out one another producing stunning visuals and Wagnerian vocalizations. As quickly as the storm patterns moved over the mountain, I too moved with my hand-held camera shooting rapidly to keep pace. This was a beginning, a genesis. And this “collaboration” of Nature, one camera and a photographer (me), produced these abstract visuals in a palette reminiscent of tonalism. I photographed 252 images that day. It took me four years to identify those that held the veracity of my experience and another three years to finalize the seven you see in this series. These images are printed in my studio on William Turner watercolor paper. I selected this paper because it enhances the painterly quality of my photographs. The print is then encased in a clear wax (encaustic) medium and fused with the maple board it is affixed to. The borders are hand-painted with encaustic (oil pigment and beeswax) paint using the rich burnt umber and sienna reflected in the images. This was a labor of love and now I pass it on to you. I hope you enjoy this modest offering of my personal experience with genesis from a Catskill mountaintop in Delaware County seven years ago. |
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