one word - Curiosity

Curiousity

“You have to dig underground, in the dark, like a mole, groping for what comes next. You have to be willing to sink into that layer of not knowing in order to come up with something you’ve never seen or done before.”
-Igor Stravinsky, 20th century Russian composer, pianist, conductor

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
-Robert Frost, 20th century American poet

Read more:
Walter Benjamin’s Grave, by Michael Taussig
University Of Chicago Press (August 15, 2006) ISBN-10: 0226790045

Exploring the Psychology of Interest, by Paul J. Silvia
Oxford University Press, USA (April 13, 2006) ISBN-10: 0195158555

The Progression of Curiosity

Curiosity is one of the driving forces for my work these days. When I first set about to make an image, I knew exactly what it was I wanted to make an image of. I'd construct the image - set, light, angles, models- then take the picture, develop the film, print the neg and there was the image I had constructed.

It was after being blown away by Sugimoto's theatre images, that I knew I wanted to be surprised. I can't see hours of light at once, but a frame of film can, and I wanted it to show me. That set me upon the "River Meets the Sea" series. Long exposures of the sea in the black of night reveal a multitude of unexpected colors and minimalizing of frothing waves and ripples to smoothed tones of light.

Now ideas come into my mind as questions. I try to think in questions, instead of answers. What would it look like if... How would it turn out if...