As Yet Untitled Photo Project
Recently and for the remainder of my Photography III class this semester, we are to work on self-assigned projects.
Mine is based off of a quote by my favorite author:
“That humans are small within Creation is an ancient perception, represented often enough in art that it must be supposed to have an elemental importance.
Old Chinese landscape paintings reveal, among towering mountains, the frail outline of a roof or a tiny human figure passing along a road on foot or horseback. These landscapes are almost always populated. There is no implication of a dehumanized interest in nature ‘for its own sake’. What is represented is a world in which humans belong, but which does not belong to humans in any tidy economic sense; the Creation provides a place for humans, but it is greater than humanity and within it even great men are small.”
-Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace
My concept has already and will likely continue to broaden beyond the comparison of man to nature and stretch to a study of man in relation to many different things– including the wide range of the “man-made”. I’m willing to follow wherever it goes.
3.5 Months & What I Expect To Be The Last Snowfall Of The Season
So there’s been a bit of a lag, but the countdown continues!
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