Nadav Kander

October 15, 2009

I was rummaging through my photography bookmarks last night and was happily reminded of Nadav Kander.

His work is so excellent. As you’ll note in the post below, I am short on words today. I’m experiencing that classic scenario of many ideas and lots of work I would like to be creating without any financial means to produce it. It isn’t that it’s expensive to produce, but rather that time producing work is time that I am not generating income.

I’m working on balancing this better. It is painful to watch autumn pass without making much personal work.

MUST WORK FASTER!!!

I intend to return to these posts, or perhaps to post again with more insightful discussion of Kander and Gronsky’s work.

Big deep breath—and now topping off my coffee mug.

+ www.nadavkander.com

Alexander Gronsky

October 15, 2009

I learned of Alexander Gronsky’s work in the current (#20) issue of Foam magazine.

I love contemporary landscape photography. I love it so much. I am currently saving money to buy a car in order to access the areas outlying metropolitan Chicago so that I may spend time creating new work. I have not been out with the sole intention of making work for far too long to consider myself serious—but I am very serious!

No excuses.

Did I mention how much I love Alexander Gronsky’s work? There’s plenty more to say, but I have to get back to the grindstone. Time’s a wasting!

+ www.alexandergronsky.com
+ www.foammagazine.nl

WHAT LIES BENEATH THE SURFACE

August 28, 2009

“We talk far too much. We should talk less and draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic Nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches. That fig tree, this little snake, the cocoon on my window sill quietly awaiting its future—all these are momentous signatures. A person able to decipher their meaning properly would soon be able to dispense with the written or the spoken word altogether. The more I think of it, there is something futile, mediocre, even (I am tempted to say) foppish about speech. By contrast, how the gravity of nature and the silence startle you, when you stand face to face with her, undistracted, before a barren ridge or in the desolation of ancient hills.”

–Goethe

Sometimes people have eyes for reality. Guy Sargent really knows what matter is. Say it fast and it rings truer still.

+ www.guysargent.com