Saturday, July 18, 2015

A Flaming Portal

 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 petroglyph points to a portal, a burning hole in a rock wall, a most perplexing phenomenon. When's the last time you saw a rock burning? I guess that might be called something resembling a volcano? Beside this portal is a break in the stone, a chasm between huge slabs of rock, in which a smaller rounded rock has become stuck in it's descent, trapped.


There's a small symbol at the bottom of the crack which means....?
What a contrast here - one rock is trapped, another reveals the distance.
Perhaps this is a geological version of the age old question - is the glass half empty or half full?

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Balance

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: http://www.bobbennettphoto.net



Balance is an interesting word - it describes something physical. And also many things metaphysical.
Someone wanders out along a huge driftwood log, definitely needing a good sense of balance - or else!
A weight scale looms in the distance, measuring... some sort of balance - the scale itself is a physical balance - put things in the tray, and add weights to the opposing tray to ascertain 'equality' of some sort.
Your whole life is a balancing act of sorts, you will always be making choices, decisions. And it's all a one way street. Yesterday will always be history, today a prelude to tomorrow.
Perhaps it's like the lyrics in a John Hiatt song - "walk on, don't ask questions, don't you try to understand...".


Here's another commenmt on that:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/opinion/david-brooks-the-small-happy-life.html