Archive for August, 2007

A portrait is not a likeness-an essay

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ::: Richard Avedon ::: I am always interested in [...]

Be aware of seagulls

Seagulls pivot and pinion on the edge of the wind Draw quivering wingtips through the air Soft fingers through Tawhiri’s hair stitch sky to land and brand the morning light with blue and golden promise. Messengers all, envoys, bearing Rangi and Papa’s pledges To each other.

Avaaz- an opportunity to make a difference?

Kia ora tatou: It has been some time since I posted on the subject of the environment, a subject about which I am passionate and not a little concerned. I guess my artist’s statement, a text I revisit from time to time, which is still the source code for my work, sums it up for [...]

Variations-Dreaming in the Key of Life

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Edgar Allen Poe Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. -John Donne It was a morning like any other.