We Are Not Two and We Are Not One Canvas Print

It is our nature to experience ourselves in some ways separate, yet always in relationship. As apart, but interdependent. As a product of the energies that make us up; and as a vital part of those energies ourselves.

This is also an image about the depth of interrelationship in a long marriage, where the two of you become intricately interconnected, yet remain distinctly yourselves.

This image has come back to me many times as a way of representing the interplay of opposites, the penetration of the simple and complex, the way the chaos of experience folds into the symmetry of celebration.

When I retired from college teaching in 2009, I wanted to recapture some of the joy and freedom I felt as a boy playing with whatever came to hand. What came to hand was a small, inexpensive digital camera, so I set out to see what I could make it do -- for no other reason than that it made me happy. I am a retired journalism professor and long-time Florida resident. I have published many articles and one book. I have exhibited photographs and drawings and am an internationally unrecognized cartoonist. I began moving the camera as a way of having fun with images – just to see what would happen. 10,000 images later, I found that I was a practitioner of the art of ICM – “Intentional Camera Movement” photography. These...