18x18" Inkjet Prints Project
Ghosts & Angels, Maya's Veils
& Faint Photographs
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Ghosts & Angels
Morning Ghosts in the Anchorage Airport (see my 12x12 project ALASKA)
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #168
"Covid Specter with tears on our picture window"
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #218
Masked Ghost walking the streets of Atlanta from the Atlanta City Series.
(click here. to see the blog project & two other related multiple-exposure projects 1974-77 )
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #59
"The ghost in the corner" a moonlit photograph from the project Nocturne
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #127
Vatican columns & wandering ghosts
Image #129 18x18" Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
Spinning Angel of Light
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Image #236 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base)
Symmetrical snow angel photograph (Khidr, or "the Face of the Angel")
When we encounter the mystery and depth of another person, whose Angel are we seeing? In Manichean legend, when, after death, on the Bridge to the other world, the soul meets its Angel in the figure of a beautiful woman, she says, "I am thyself."
The Angel Holy Spirit is, as we know, in each case unique. Henry Corbin's Sufi mystic [Ibn 'Arabi, b.1165] "knows that he is the eye with which God contemplates himself; that he himself, in his being, is the witness by which God witnesses himself, the revelation by which the Hidden Treasure reveals itself to itself."
The person of the Angel is infinite and iconic--that is, the succession of transcendences never stops . . . The true self opens upwards, and forever.
The power of the creative imagination, the gift of Gabriel, the Angel Holy Spirit, enables each of us, if we consent, to give birth to the Angel, whose grace allows us to see all the world as an icon. For we give birth not only to God, but the world itself, transfigured in the light of a personal vision. Tom Cheetham: After Prophesy See other quotes in my project The Angels Part IV
18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #17 Symmetrical Photo (Angelic Music Instrument)
Image #232 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base)
Venetian blinds, strip of light dots & an Angel's wing
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #194
"Snow Angle Wing" (small snow-covered bush)
Inversed symmetrical snow angel wings
21x21" Square Image #16 Symmetrical Photograph
(Blue Angel - Blue Pearl)
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Maya's Veils
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #79
Maya's Tear (from the Maya Veils Project
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #202
Blue tape on plastic, a taught string, and a veiled basement window in the background
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #106
Maya's veil over potted plant on basement window sill
Maya's many veils Conjoining at a Point
A triangular light behind Maya's Veils
Maya's Sweeping Triangular Veil
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Image #75 18x18" Inkjet print (on 20x24"base)
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Image # 16 PORTRAITS (A 12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT)
Image # 36 PORTRAITS (A 12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT)
Book Eleven Image #53 (12x12 inkjet print) Scared, crying child (out of focus)
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18x21" images on 20"x 24" paper Inkjet prints made in February, 2024
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #211
Symmetrical Photograph version of Maya's Sweeping Triangular Veil
Maya's welcoming face
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #217
The Frightening Face or Mask of Maya, Goddess of Illusion
From the project "The Mystery of Maya's Illusion & the Divine Presence"
from the Project Maya's Veils
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Faint Photographs
Visit my my earlier blog project
Its introductory text may be of interest to you.
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #71
A scanned solarized silver-gelatin print of a 1960's crowd of people looking at the flash of light
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #173
Four men in suites (out of focus)
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #77
A Man and a Woman walking into the light (Faint Photograph)
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Image #76 18x18 Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
Grasshopper (Faint Photograph)
Two Geckos (Faint Photograph)
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Image #5 18x18 Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base) (Faint Photograph, Bull in foggy landscape)
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #28 Faint Photo: Windswept Pompeii
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #29 Faint Photo: Waving Goodbye
Visit: Faint Photographs (for a Departing Landscape)
12x12" Faint Photographs
Image #3 of the 12x12" inkjet PROJECT : Things Suspended In Space
A fading photograph curling up on a window sill behind a storefront window
This Faint Photograph has something to do with The Departing Landscape.
Most things--including human beings and photographs--fade when they
become over-exposed to the light of the sun. (Note: The surrounding
matte tone was made pure white to match the border tone of the
curled photograph; I added a line around the matte to show
where the 12x12" inkjet print image with matte ends.
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Image #24 of the 12x12" inkjet PROJECT : Things Suspended In Space
A Man & A Woman walking into light
This is an enlarged out-of-focus version of Image 21 (above)
Re-vision and Transformation are ongoing themes in my continuing creative process.
Image #51 of the 12x12" inkjet PROJECT : Things Suspended In Space
View of the Hudson River from the Bear Mountain Bridge
This image is the concluding image from my Hudson River Valley Project.
It is also one of my favorite images from my collection of
Faint Photographs (for the Departing Landscape).
This image exists as a 21x21" inkjet print.
Image #22 of the 12x12" inkjet PROJECT : Things Suspended In Space
A Family playing together in a lake of light
This is a 12x12" inkjet print version of an early miniature Studies photograph,
originally a 3.5" square silver gelatin print made in 1994-2000. Visit
Image #8 Book Ten 12x12" Inkjet Prints
Glowing Tree (Faint photograph) for the project "In the Woods"
Portrait of a grasshopper posing on the window ledge of our front storm door
See my Faint Photographs project
Image # 29 PORTRAITS (A 12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT)
Portrait of a fisherman, fishing in the fog
I very much identify with this image. Looking for things to photograph is very much
like fishing; one persists, patiently waiting for the feeling of something alive on
the other end of the line that serves as a call to action. I photograph in a state
very much like meditation: silent, receptive, and all the time consciously
preparing for that magical luminous moment . . . I consider every
photograph I make a Self-Portrait, but most especially those
images which function for me as a True, living Symbol.
This image exists as a 21x21" inkjet print
(The Presence, Ghost, Spirit, or Soul of a Person)
The classic head and shoulder portrait is often my point of departure in this collection
of "portraits" made over a lifetime. In this case, I have never come closer at giving
visual form to a person's soul. In the yoga I practice, in which the Oneness of
Being is the dominate teaching, there is the understanding that everything
is pervaded by the same soul, the same one inner divine presence. This
picture for me is about That. I did have an experience once in which
I saw something like this image late one night while we both were
asleep. I saw Gloria's luminous presence looking down at me
laying on the bed and, at the same time, I could feel her
body, next to me, also asleep on the bed.
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This project page was published on August 12, 2025
but it is presently unfinished; also, more pictures
may be added or removed later.
Here is the list of titles for the newly revised, thematically restructured 18x18" Inkjet Print Project. When a title has been published as a blog page, the hyperlinked title will appear as a deep blue typeface. As the titles indicate, more than one thematic grouping may be published under a single blog page title.
"Pandemic Inspired" & Winter Photographs
Makom, "the Place"
Symmetrical Images
"The Persephone Series" & "In the Woods"
Five Homage Project Images:
Giorgio Morandi
Steve Lacy
Robert Ryman
Mario Giacometti
Mompou
List of Projects
included in the
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Time & Timelessness February 1, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
The Memory of Light March 4, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
Black and White Photographs April 3, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
Winter's End, Winter's Stones & Plants April 17, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
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The Pandemic Inkjet Prints project June, 2023
Twenty-five photographs, printed 16x20"on 20x24"paper
Blue Angels (A Photography Project about Death, Angels & the Blue Pearl (the blog version was revised April 2023) Inkjet prints made in 2023 (image sizes vary from 16x20" to 18x21")
Double-page Illuminations for An Imaginary Book
An Additional Related Blog Project Link
Please visit the Welcome Page to my blog The Departing Landscape. It includes the complete hyperlinked listing of my online photography projects dating from the most recent to those dating back to the 1960's. You will also find on the Welcome Page my several Introductory statements, my resume, contact information . . . and much more.
