I spent a considerable amount of time last night, the first day of the year, playing with two wooden blocks. (I’ve been playing with blocks for about a month!) I'm sure I took at least 10 pics of this 2 block arrangement last night, trying over and over to capture what I was seeing and experiencing in this elemental arrangement.
To my surprise I never captured what I was after, which is quite a surprise really. I thought pictures captured reality but I see now they only capture part of it. As far as I’m concerned, the texture, the density, the cohesion, the drama, of these two blocks clinging to each other as a single unit simply doesn't come through in any of the pics I took.
Despite my photographic "failure, however, I did get to a new insight about what I'm doing with these blocks which I am am quite excited about: By reducing the elements of this project to just a few blocks I find I am able to experience an entirely fundamental unity, cohesion, I would even say beauty, which I am finding positively thrilling.
By eliminating multiplicity and dwelling entirely on this level of simplicity I am experiencing beauty and drama in forms and structures, textures, which I see as simply belonging together, "needing" each other, “relying" on each other - creating the most unexpectedly profound and beautiful, poetic realities!
The thrill of discovering new realities, the daily creative adventure of constantly climbing a new Mt. Everest, is not only thrilling and life giving but leading me to deeper truths and the most extraordinary experiences of beauty. O the wonder!
