G. Steve Journal

Unconscious Insight

German geologist Hans Cloos observes that perhaps the reason we are attracted to landscapes is evolutionary:

Why does man find beauty in a landscape? Is it not because he is a part of nature, inwardly subject to nature’s laws, because he has an unconscious insight into the internal order of the earth, into the rhythm of its repetitions, the harmony of its lines and surfaces and the balanced interplay of its parts? And does not our delight in the contemplation of nature grow out of the harmony between the music of our own soul and the music of the earth?

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In The Work

I am a hunter. I hunt for pictures. I’m not a verbal man. I have nothing to reveal. It’s all in the work, I hope.

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The Creative Act

For many artists, and this photographer, the creative effort is an attempt to make some sense out of a reality that can often appear bewildering. This metaphor describing that process is an apt one:

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

                                                                                                                              – Terence McKenna 

It Becomes

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

                                                                                                        ~ Henry Miller

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