Moonbird Triptych
by Gerald Grow
Title
Moonbird Triptych
Artist
Gerald Grow
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Some events are so powerful that they cannot be represented as themselves but must be represented by a symbolic image that may not even look much like the actual thing, especially when the thing, like the moonrise, so dramatically changes everything around it when it appears raising the land itself in tides of sand.
In this image, I tried to suggest the feeling of the waves, the surge and suck of the surf, the way the unapproachable, unavoidable light pulls at every fluid in your being, creating tides inside us, hurling us into a huge cavern of mysterious light, reminding us of our separateness yet uniting us with the axis of the universe -- the full moon rising as clear and simple as a paradox.
Every detail in these three images comes from a single long-exposure photograph of the moon, with a flash at the end that caught the edge of the beach and surf. The orange pattern in the middle is the full moon itself, spun by the dance of a moving camera, then folded onto itself into a totemic symbol that suggests a mysterious and cosmic symmetry.
Parts of the same photograph were then folded onto themselves to produce the patterns that surround -- like the night and sea and shore -- the moon-image in the middle of each picture.
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October 14th, 2013
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