[Download] ~ Living Stone ~ by Stephen E. Strom ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Living Stone
- Author : Stephen E. Strom
- Release Date : January 26, 2013
- Genre: Photography,Books,Arts & Entertainment,Art & Architecture,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 21465 KB
Description
A portfolio of fine art images exploring the ever changing abstract patterns in stone.
During the past three decades, most of my work has centered on interpretations of the landscape itself. More recently, freed by digital cameras from the physical and psychological burdens of a large view camera and heavy tripods, I have turned my attention from the macro- to micro- worlds: choosing to image fragments of the desert that express in their quiet, understated way the same powerful combination of pattern, history and emotion as the grander landscape.
Thus these images of sandstone, captured over the past seven years. In the shape and patterns of sandstone, according to the late essayist, Ellen Meloy, “resides the memory of ancient seas. Copper-colored floods sculpted the hollow that holds the palm of our hands.” She conjures the emotional draw of sandstone, imagining herself “recumbent on a piece of sandstone as a respite from the motion of a long walk, a way to fit muscle, bone, and flesh to a curve of earth. The posture of intimacy and sensation evokes emotion, one hopes, which leas to meaning, then understanding.”
Consider these images shards; fragments that together aim to reveal history in the patterns of iron, copper, silicon, manganese and uranium compounds created long ago in the interiors of stars and, billions of years later, embedded in rock and sand. Combined they evoke both history and emotion in the sensual contours that result when elemental forces -- water, wind, and earth -- meet, clash, and accommodate.
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