Standing in my backyard, I practiced just being still for a brief period observing my surroundings. I was in my still point standing in one spot and meditating visually. Although I had taken a camera out with me, it remained silent as I visually dissected the scene before me.
I was slowly allowing my eyes to travel across a series of tile roofs of neighboring houses. While each of us might view this scene differently and photograph it as whole images of houses, I found myself breaking it up into a series of sections. What I saw was lines dissecting lines, shapes and light dissolving into shadows. What I was looking at was a series of abstractions each forming an individual image. It was at this point that I picked up the camera and began recording these fragments of images.
Standing in my backyard, I practiced just being still for a brief period observing my surroundings. I was in my still point standing in one spot and meditating visually. Although I had taken a camera out with me, it remained silent as I visually dissected the scene before me.
You might think of this as a process of discovery that becomes an endless source of creativity. I like to think of it as the art of being still...a sort of still point where your eyes begin to build a series of photographs on the canvas in your mind.
All images shot using a Sony A7II camera. I can be contacted at nymacc@gmail.com
