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Observations - Les Enfants du Paradis (Children Of Paradise)
The inspiration for the gallery title, and ongoing series, came while viewing a documentary on the history of film. The narrator was describing influential French films of the ’40s and “Les Enfants du Paradis” (Children of Paradise) was mentioned and shown; the title immediately resonated!
Wanting to know about the film and why I reacted, I immediately looked up the title (via Wikipedia—ha!) and to my surprise it said “in French, ‘paradis’ is the colloquial name for the gallery or second balcony in a theater, where common people sat and viewed a play, responding to it honestly …”
It described my reaction to a ‘t’ when I come upon flowers! I feel as a spectator feels in ‘the gallery’ and viewing the show; a voyeur.
A witness to a show of raw, subtle beauty, an erotic and sensual force of nature played out so obviously for all to see. Enjoy!
Wanting to know about the film and why I reacted, I immediately looked up the title (via Wikipedia—ha!) and to my surprise it said “in French, ‘paradis’ is the colloquial name for the gallery or second balcony in a theater, where common people sat and viewed a play, responding to it honestly …”
It described my reaction to a ‘t’ when I come upon flowers! I feel as a spectator feels in ‘the gallery’ and viewing the show; a voyeur.
A witness to a show of raw, subtle beauty, an erotic and sensual force of nature played out so obviously for all to see. Enjoy!
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9 imagesIt is often said 'life is a journey.' The photos here represent a part of this ongoing journey, the odyssey of living life. Enabled and emboldened, I've found and crafted another aspect of my visual voice. Shooting flowers are as much devotion as they are a joy! Along with what I call a bees-eye view, and passion, I take time to smell the flowers non-stop. My intention is to take a viewer past the commonality of looking at a flower to experience a flower as more of a solid object. To lose sight of its' fragility and perhaps see them sometimes as solid and sculptural, and other times whatever they might imagine. As a viewer’s eyes move over emerging forms, they subtly absorb other interacting elements of light, focus, texture, color, contrast, etc which all act together revealing a new visual experience with a flower. A viewer travels along this obvious but hidden journey of an aspect of life with flowers. -
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