Tuesday, October 20, 2015

A stairway to....

What is this blog about? In a nutshell, it's about black and white darkroom photomontage. Every few weeks, a new image with a few words about it, kinda poetic, philsophical.
For more details - check out the archive, the first post, April 26, 2015.
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"Stairway to...?"



The desert seems like a place that is almost devoid of life, harsh, inscrutable, totally unwilling to reveal it's secrets.
The emptiness sucks you in, and soon you learn what the emptiness teaches. It is actually a stepping stone, a stairway of sorts. Or perhaps a mirror - you see in it something of yourself - what that is, is up to you.

In a previous post i quoted Rumi:

'Only an empty bucket can be refilled'

The same is true here. There's a lot of silence here, so...
I'll quote Rumi again:

'Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.'

Monday, October 5, 2015

Crown of Thorns

What is this blog about? In a nutshell, it's about black and white darkroom photomontage. Every few weeks, a new image with a few words about it, kinda poetic, philsophical.
For more details - check out the archive, the first post, April 26, 2015.
If you like what you see here, go to: www.bobbennettphoto.net




A throne of sorts, with a crown of thorns - what sort of place is this?

The thorns are actually a Joshua Tree, maybe not the acanthus you might have read about in ancient sources, but they are quite thorny enough.

Do you dare sit here? The chair looks comfortable enough, but the crown? I dunno about that.
I’ve been to this place. I think it's a place to make hard choices. Or maybe have deep challenging thoughts.

If you would take a seat, I could tell you just a few things about life.
Just a few. I don't know much more than that. Do you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_thorns

Always gotta quote Ahnold, the Terminator:
"Ah'll be back"