So maybe this ongoing theme of pathways is getting tedious for you, the viewer, but for me it seems to have a pretty firm grip on my vision. Yesterday's image was that temporary path imposed on a field by windrows of drying hay, and today's entire image bank turns out to be variations on the pathway motif. I was gathering mushrooms in a city park and, in between recording shots of the species I found, made photos for this project in three very different situations. Looking at them back home now I realize they are all variations on the same visual theme: "found" lines in the landscape, dividing, leading...somewhere. Away. I'm learning that for me, making these pathway images, there has to be a place at the edge of the frame suggesting direction, yet not specifying destination -- open possibility. Horizon. Woods.
(I love the wooden posts or pilings in the upper right of the first image. Barely peeking up beyond the crest of the hill -- someplace to head toward, to wonder about. For this same reason, the third image, water channeling between rocks, ultimately doesn't work for me, too anonymous. It doesn't inspire me to wonder where it's going).
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