Seeing 2009 (#96)

For your consideration: a study of angularities, and light's transformative and revelatory nature. This submission neatly represents my favorite mode of creative expression, that being the potential of an ordinary, often rarely noticed scene to be viewed as a potent abstract canvas. The setting is one of the many study rooms located in my workplace.

The transitive aspect of sunlight is what gives this composition its primary thrust and potency. Innumerable photons ever so briefly skimmed the plane's surface, yielding a surprising beam resembling interstellar dust, its many constituent particles vanishing in a moment as the sun's attention moved on. This tableau speaks again to Impermanence: the chain's orbs and the particles are illuminated and revealed only temporarily, as is true of all things . . . as George Harrison sang, All Things Must Pass.

Abstract #5500

(c)2009 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: October 30, 2009; Canon 20D; f/11 @ 1/60 sec; -1/3 EV; ISO 400; 33mm.

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