Symmetrical Meadow Photographs
Introduction
The photographs I used to construct these symmetrical photographs are from an earlier project entitled The Meadow. I encourage you to take a look at the project and read the introductory text. To see my other symmetrical photograph projects visit: The Complete Collection.
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As I was writing the introduction to the Four-fold Symmetrical Hydrofracking Photographs I realized that the making of symmetrical photographs was something like a ritual for me. I had the feeling that the transformation of the image I started out with somehow magically affected the subject matter in the picture. I imagined, or perhaps wanted to believe, that some degree of protection or purification or healing could be affected by transforming the hydrofracking imagery into a symmetrical photograph. I would like to believe that the symmetrical photographs, and the process of making them, have some subtle impact against the threat of hydrofracking in New York State, and particularly in the area we live in.
My wife and I live next to a beautiful meadow on the edge of a woods in a "protected" watershed area close to Canandaigua Lake, one of New York State's Finger Lakes. The entire Finger Lakes area is very beautiful and rich with precious fresh water, clean air, and a flowering of tourism, organic farming and wineries. All of this is at risk of becoming poisoned and destroyed by quite literally being turned into an industrial waste land by the ugly, aggressive, polluting natural gas drilling process known as high volume hydraulic fracturing . . . if . . . NY State Government decides to permit it.
May these four-fold symmetrical transformations of The Meadow photographs help protect the meadow, the community I live in, all of the finger Lakes area of NY State, and the entire global natural world from the ignorant, short sighted, greedy, destructive kind of human acts exemplified by hydrofracking.
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#1 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Dark Fall Sky 19x25"
#15 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Fog Islands 19x25"
#3 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Spring Green 19x25"
#3 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Dark Meadow, iced pond 19x25"
#4 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Frost 19x25"
#5 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Rainbow 19x25"
#6 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - After a Storm 19x25"
#7 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Light Grey Cloud 19x25"
#8 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Hawk's Shadow 19x25"
#14 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Fog lifting 19x25"
#9 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Thistle patch 19x25"
#10 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Snow late afternoon 19x25"
#11 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Fog & snow covered pond 19x25"
#17 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Opening in stormy sky 19x25"
#12 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Strand of trees, fog 19x25"
#13 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - Spring fog floating meadow 19x25"
#16 Symmetrical Meadow Photograph - V shaped flight of birds 19x25"
Five
Symmetrical
Meadow Photographs
The five symmetrical photographs below are from the Creation-Dissolution of a World project, completed February 16, 2017.
Symmetrical Meadow Photograph #1 Creation-Dissolution of a World
Symmetrical Meadow Photograph #2 Creation-Dissolution of a World
Symmetrical Meadow Photograph #3 Creation-Dissolution of a World
Symmetrical Meadow Photograph #4 Creation-Dissolution of a World
Symmetrical Meadow Photograph #5 Creation-Dissolution of a World
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Related Projects:
The introduction to this project provides a full detailed
explanation about the construction and symbolism
of the Four-fold symmetrical photographs
This page was first posted 6-9-2012
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