Think about the everyday flowers. The flowers that normally grow near you exemplify the purpose of this photography project. They are temporary. There is only so much time to enjoy them. They can be small, hidden, commonplace or somehow easy to overlook. You see them but you don’t see them.
But they’re also beautiful when you have a moment to notice them.
That is what I am trying to draw attention to with photography right now. I am making images like these is to find a little time to appreciate something good. To stop and dwell on it, and maybe to take that chance to find my way up and in to what is best. Down into what is deepest too.
Meanwhile, each successive moment, is thick with ramifications and therefore thoughts multiply. That sometimes makes the available good hard to accept. We’re focused on the next thing we want, or the past one we got or didn’t get.
Flowers live without doing any of this. They make something good, and have for uncounted generations, without any thoughts at all, and they invite us to stop for a moment and let in the good that is really here.
Another way of saying it
I hope that makes sense. Many of the words necessary to talk about this topic are fraught. What I want to say is that I made these images because I am finding that beauty matters. It does some good. These images represent the intersection of what I am finding and my current ability to show it.
So this collection of everyday flowers is an invitation, a collection of invitations, to meditate on the good. Think about the everyday flowers — the good scattered around our day-to-day lives however unevenly. It’s a great use of a few moments of your time — one that may be the beginning of a changed life.
If you follow my Instagram or my currently under-used Flickr, think of these as the real image collection.
The other project I am writing about here is my work converting some projection lenses — the Ektoplasmars — as I am calling them.