The
Homage
Photography Projects
As an artist, one of the ways I can explore this kind of meaningful experience in great depth, and amplify its meaning so that I can more consciously examine the resonance I feel, is by creating a complete body of photographs that as a visual whole gives symbolic form to my response. A photography project in homage to anything important to me is a sustained form of visual contemplation or meditation.
In 2025, amidst the chaos of the Trump Administration and the 2025 published agenda of the Christian Nationalists--which Trump and his lapdogs (including certain Supreme Court opportunists) seem to be following (quite unapologetically), it occurred to me that I have not yet paid visual homage to God, the Guru and the 1,000 other names given to the Supreme Creator . . .
Below is a list of photography projects that in various ways acknowledge and give visual form to the respect and gratitude I feel for that which has awakened me to the life I am living and the divine Presence and teachings that have helped me reach a more subtle understanding to the True meaning of living in a body, with all its sensory apparatus, and a mind that fails to comprenhend it all most of the time. The world I live in has an interior life as well as a physical corresponding form, and I am nevr happier than when I see the two reflected in each other in the form of a photograph that has come to me with grace.
The projects are listed chronologically, beginning with the earliest at the top; the most recent projects are listed at the bottom.
Below is a list of photography projects that in various ways acknowledge and give visual form to the respect and gratitude I feel for that which has awakened me to the life I am living and the divine Presence and teachings that have helped me reach a more subtle understanding to the True meaning of living in a body, with all its sensory apparatus, and a mind that fails to comprenhend it all most of the time. The world I live in has an interior life as well as a physical corresponding form, and I am nevr happier than when I see the two reflected in each other in the form of a photograph that has come to me with grace.
The projects are listed chronologically, beginning with the earliest at the top; the most recent projects are listed at the bottom.
Please click on the hyperlinked titles to view the projects which are listed earliest projects first, newest completed projects last.
Steve Lacy Series 1977-78 Homage to Steve Lacy, jazz performer and composer
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Steve Lacy Series 1977-78 Homage to Steve Lacy, jazz performer and composer
Thing Centered Photographs 1980's / 2003 . . . Homage to the "Thing" Poets and most especially Francis Ponge and Robert Bly's book News of the Universe the chapter "Thing or Object Poems"
Studies I 1994-2000 Homage to brief piano pieces: etudes, or studies
Studies II : Monk's Quirky Music Homage to Thelonius Monk, jazz composer, performer
Studies II : Monk's Quirky Music Homage to Thelonius Monk, jazz composer, performer
The Lake Series, 1981-82 Homage to Lake Michigan, its space, its light, its living presence and American composer Charles Ives who inspired the Lake Collages .
Images of Eden 1983-84 & City Places 1984-85 Homage to photographer Eugene Atget
Family Life 1985-88 Homage to my wife Gloria, my son & daughter Shaun & Jessica
River Songs 1988-89 Homage to English Pastoral Composers and their music. Some of my favorite composers include: Ralph Vaughn Williams, Fredrick Delius, Frank Bridge, George Butterworth, and Arnold Bax
River Songs 1988-89 Homage to English Pastoral Composers and their music. Some of my favorite composers include: Ralph Vaughn Williams, Fredrick Delius, Frank Bridge, George Butterworth, and Arnold Bax
The Garage Series 1999-2000 Homage to Morton Feldman, American Composer and everyone in Milwaukee who has a garage I photographed.
Hudson River Valley 2010 Homage to the Hudson River Painters
In the Woods 1974 / 2010 Homage to American painter Charles Burchfield
"An Imaginary Book" 2011-13 Homage to the Islamic Sacred Art Tradition
Still Life : Homage to Giorgio Morandi 2013-14
Still Life : Homage to Giorgio Morandi 2013-14
The Angels 2014 Homage to the painter Paul Klee, Homage to Angels, and Homage to writers Henry Corbin and Tom Cheetham
Photography and Yoga 2015 Homage to the Siddha Yoga Path & its Meditation Masters: Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Swami Muktananda & Bhagvan Nityananda
Snow : Photographs of the Silver World 2015 Homage to Snow & Japanese and Chinese Painting
Illuminations 2016 Homage to Hafiz and other Poet Saints
The Letter Morandi Wrote to Thelonious Monk September 2021 Hommage to Monk and Morandi
Nocturne July 2022 : Homage to Frederyk Chopin, his 21 Nocturnes, and Andrzej Wasowski's
Heartfelt 1989 recording of the music
Black & White Photographs April 2025 Homage to my Black & White Photographs
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This page was posted on my Welcome Page
October 21, 2017 ~ updated ~ February 2026
Welcome Page for my TheDepartingLandscape.blogspot.com photography website-blog, which includes the complete listing of my online photography projects, my resume, contact information, and much more.
