Emerging #1
by Gerald Grow
Title
Emerging #1
Artist
Gerald Grow
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
“Emerging” came out of a single pho- tograph of lights, taken with a moving camera. I selected, cropped, and mirrored the image onto itself to bring out new patterns. To explore what was inside it, I made more than 150 variations of this one image. (Some of them actually worked.)
This piece kept waking me up to tell me that it needed to be BIG -- big enough to call to you quietly from the other side of the room -- where it looks like a few calmly scintillating columns. (The largest version so far, made with color copies and pushpins, was 7 by 12 feet.) -- Big enough that, when you come within a few feet of it, it sucks you in and fills your vision with the swirl of creation and destruction, of interpenetrating but independent forms, a suggestion of the eternal dance of energy and matter whose unending flow maintains us as it passes through to create other things.
I love “Emerging” for suggesting the swirl of energy at the border between chaos and order that gives out and takes back every- thing we can imagine or experience or know. Including what we so tenderly know as one another. And as ourselves.
We need categories that interpenetrate -- where in and
out take place at once, birth and death include each other
-- where our ideas of joy and suffering, perfection and raggedness, eternal and ephemeral, allow us to experience ourselves as we are -- emerging.
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August 18th, 2019
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