civilized ku # 2339 ~ refrigerator reds

reds in the refrigerator ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenFor the past few, every time I have opened the refrigerator door those red peppers have been screaming, "Take my picture."

rain # 25-33 ~ rainy day and a Chinese dinner

Utility pole ~ Jay, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Mountain mist ~ Jay, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Tractor ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Embankment ~ Jay, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Grassy clump ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
2 trees ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Leaning tree ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Roadside ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Tree trunk ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenYesterday, by mid morning, it began to rain and did so for most of the day. It was a great day for making rain pictures although I went out with the intention of making 1 picture - Utility pole. A picture for the making of which I had been waiting for rain.

Waiting for particular conditions or light is not my normal picturing MO. As most of you know, my usual picturing making is accomplished by having a camera(s) with me at all times in order to picture whatever happens to come my way / catch my eye. Other than assignment oriented picture making, which requires making pictures of specific referents, just being prepared to make a picture of whatever catches my eye and tweaks my sensibilities is the order of any given day.

Yesterday's specific referent / conditions picture making outing was different in its intent but similar in results to my usual picturing habits. That is, between here and my referent objective (and there about), quite a number of picture making possibilities where evident. So, as can be seen above, I made a bunch of pictures.

Interesting enough, I didn't get the exact picture I set out to make. While I did make a Utility pole picture, it is not the picture I had 'pre-visualized' - That picture, the one wanted to make, would have required a much heavier rainfall. I don't know why, but I see, in my minds eye, that scene in a very heavy downpour with rain very much in evidence.

The heavy downpour did eventually appear but much later in the day. Unfortunately, picture making wise, as I was preparing to head out to the same scene again, the wife showed up with a takeout Chinese dinner. So, rather than fiddling with my camera(s), I fiddled with chopsticks instead.

Maybe I'll have better luck next time - rain wise, not dinner wise.

squares² # 3 ~ common beauty / beauty in common

squares² ~ all together, in my mind and eye • click to embiggenAs mentioned, I have ruminated for quite some time - measured in years, not months or days - my propensity for discursive promiscuity, picture making wise. Most of that time inside my head was spent thinking, not about my picturing MO, but rather what to do, presentation wise, with all of those discursive pictures. While I have half a dozen or so referent focused bodies of work, those bodies of work taken all together are minuscule, # of pictures wise, relative to the now 4,000+ and rising # of pictures which, IMO, fall into the discursive promiscuity picture making realm of things.

That written, the solution to my presentation quandary would seem to be at hand ...

While I have always recognized that the best of my discursive, but nevertheless vision unified, pictures would need to be printed and displayed in a presentationally cohesive manner, the exact manner of doing so has, until now, escaped me. However, having essentially boxed myself into a corner by writing and talking about the notion of unified vision as evidenced across a diverse body of pictures, I had to get down to brass tacks and cash the check my mouth was writing.

As a result of that effort, I have arrived at a plan of creating a series of square prints, each with 4 seemingly unrelated, referent wise, square pictures (all printed on a single sheet of paper), or, to put it another way - squares². Each squares² print will be created in 4 sizes - 24"×24" (edition of 20), 36"×36" (edition of 10), 48"×48" (edition of 4), and 60"×60" (edition of 1).

The initial plan is to create, over time, multiple 20 squares² picture collections. How many collections? Who knows. I have enough pictures to make 200 20 squares² picture collections but that's not gonna happen. However, the number 10 sounds like a nice round doable number.

I am actually rather excited about this project simply because it's all coming together / starting to make sense.

civilized ku # 2338 ~ another picture not about cats

Cats sleeping in window ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenThis picture, although it might appear to be about cats, is most definitely not about cats because I don't do cat pictures.

diptych # 9 ~ seeing what's not there

Cats / dishrack ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenI am certain there are those who might think this diptych is about cats, bicycle seats, garden tools, a straw hat, paper towels, a water bottle, or clean cookware amongst other things. However, IMO, if that's all one sees, one has not yet learned how see.

ku # 1177 ~ tiny ecosystem

Grass and ground hugging growth ~ Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen

ku # 1176 ~ small ecosystem

Little island ~ Tupper Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen

civilized ku #2337 ~ Coors Light

Peaks ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenLots of peaks. Might not have noticed all of them were in not for the fact that the truck caught my eye.