October 22, 2011 Pictured below: some of the smallest rooms in the world.
Welcome to my own personal Rebecca-only photography site! For those of you who followed me here from Red Bat Photography, thank you for joining me in this new adventure.
I’ve created this space to share with you my experience of taking pictures and looking at them. I’m examining the ways this camera/operator unit partners with the world, through the viewfinder and in snapshots on the screen later. How does shooting interact with living for me? Let’s align the imagined with the recorded and find the gaps, which are interesting and have their own shapes. Though these gaps only exist in my mind, photos help me feel their contours, examine their contents. True reality, not just the stuff we think of as reality, is floating in those crevices. At least, I think it is. If it's floating anywhere, it's got to be there.
I don’t expect any of what I just said to come through in the photos I post here, because how could you, the viewer of these photos long after the fact, know what was imagined at the time? What I thought I was recording? Not even if I tell you can you truly know. Anyway, the chasm between intention and deed is not the most interesting thing about a photo. More interesting is what you imagine when you see it, what your mind does with the visual information. Where an image takes you, how it inserts itself into your subconscious for later use. You will make your own gap to ponder, between what you see in an image now and how you remember it.
We can explore both gaps. It’s easy! We don’t even have to think about it. I take pictures, then look at them. You look at those pictures too, and keep breathing. Forces beyond our awareness will do the exploring, inside our heads.
Does that make sense? Don’t worry, my posts won’t all be like this. Most of the time I expect I’ll tell stories about where I was and what was happening when the photos were taken. But I do get theoretical about photography sometimes, and when that occurs, you’ll be the first to hear it.
Soon there will be posts with stories about the galleries found on the "people, places, things" page. Eventually, there will be lots more galleries too. Please do come back later, for more…
Reader Comments (3)
Amazing work. Can't wait to hear more!
This is very exciting to see, Rebecca! The site looks stunning.
Magic mushrooms, to be sure.