Windswept Symmetrical Photographs
Introduction
These symmetrical photographs were constructed from images I had made for an earlier project entitled Windswept Landscapes and Memorials. I encourage you to visit the project, see the original single, wind-blurred images, and read the brief introduction. To see my other symmetrical photograph projects visit: The Complete Collection
I'm fascinated by the transformation that occurs with the making of symmetrical photographs. I have written elsewhere about how the process of constructing four-fold symmetrical photographs from a singular image resonates for me as a ritual act.
In the case of the Windswept Symmetrical Photographs I began the four-fold making process with images that had already undergone radical "wind-blurred" transformations. I had thought of those initial transformations as visual metaphors for the transforming power of nature - in particular, the way wind can purify, change or even heal certain things of the world in radical, magical or otherwise meaningful ways. Of course wind is associated with the divine breath and inspiration.
Because of the radical degree of transformation these images have undergone, I suspect in some cases that some viewers would be interested to know the original subject matter that was photographed in relation to how it looks in this new form. Thus I have supplied titles which could perhaps add another level of conceptual complexity and meaning to your experience of the images.
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Snow patch on the side of a hill at sundown 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Cloud over a Gettysburg Landscape 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Visitors Line, Vietnam War Memorial 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Pompeii, Piazza 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Meadow, Woods, Snow Covered Pond 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Overview, Finger Lakes 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Wave, Canandaigua Lake #1 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Dark, Red Canal 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Lake Canandaigua and hills 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Headlights on Memorial Highway 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Sunrise, Hudson River, Mountain 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Wave, Canandaigua Lake #2 (inversion) 19x25"
Windswept Symmetrical Photographs - Fall Meadow, Evening Clouds 19x25"
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 June 20, 2012.
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