There is something to be said about the way things enter our perception, and maybe also about how receptive we are to our surroundings. We walk quietly in nature, lower our voices and try to welcome the existence of other life into our awareness… There's a deer…a squirrel…Oh' a snake-skin - Wow! can you believe this? … And so on. From the daily routine which we leave in the car or at home, we enter this welcoming well-being state and complement everything around us with the being one with nature.
Looking at this photo (left) and the ones you are about to see, my question is - Yes! I like to identify shapes and spend time staring into their spatial textures with the intents on recording the vision to it's best advantage, and eventually onto a fine art print. But the question is: Did this rock jump from God knows where and God knows how long ago and plunk itself right here, molding it's form on the way, and in a way that would cause Angelo and Rodin draw inspiration…just for me?…just for you? And did this tree sprout and grow up tall and healthy in an area that seems so impossible? "C'mon Rock… I am Tree, and I just found a hair-line crack in your composition that will allow water to trickle down, widening that crack just enough for you to support me and for me to stop you from eroding into desert. That's right Rock! It's you, me, soil, water and sun (and a few other ingredients) We make good partners don't we?… We are Nature!". Still the question remains: Did this shape… so organic… so massive…so erotic exist just for me to identify? or is a six-pack also just a coincidence?
So I stand in front of these trees that grow out of the rocks with their roots exposed naked, supporting the trunks in gravity-defying assured courage, shaded by a canopy way…way up there and ask: "How old are you? How long have you been here"? And when it is real quiet around, because we do walk quietly in nature, comes an answer "I don't know for sure, but the great-grand-children of thoMimise who have carved love notes on my trunk down there must have quite a few great-grand-children running around by now"…
Thank you so much for the visit.
Benjamin Margalit
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