"Darkness and Light "
animated movies from still photographs exploring metaphors for consciousness

Spiritual revelations and realizations require presence in the moment. Light and time, like the spark and flicker on the retina are what we try to grasp and hold, but whose residue leaves only traces of reality, like an after-image, like pulses of a heartbeat or breathing - inhalation and exhalation, expansion and contraction – one completing the process begun by the other. An eye – opening to blinding light, seared and seer.  Focus and lack of focus – coming into and out of focus. Knowledge, illumination, understanding, growth, lucidity, healing, consciousness, enlightenment, awakening - a crack and blinding revelation. In these crepuscular moments, time is transported and carried by the flow that comes together at a pool or delta like the cycle of trickling water that repeats itself over and over and yet never in the exact same formation, splashing into a pool and setting waves into repercussion, each with their own qualities. Water, like light, is an agent. It can be smooth as glass and violent as a tsunami. It is both punctum and studium. Water can blend, dilute, carry reflect and absorb messages. A force of life and one that wields the ability to erode, flood and shatter, it is also a primal mixing medium. Time, like water, can be experienced but not held. The accumulation of time and light (both formed by waves) is written into the structure of the photographic image.