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Exhibition 2015 – Reflections

I approached the theme of the exhibition in three different ways:
A reflection on passing from Life to Death as both my parents died this summer
A question : Was the naming of the planets a reflection of man’s observation of himself, or does each man/woman reflect all the planets?
Looking for reflections of light and objects, I also found a reflection of a dream I had had ten years previously.

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Reflection on passing from Life to Death

Both my parents died this summer. My mother, unconscious in the last days of her life, seemed to draw from her own source but she also seemed anxious. To my eye, her hands shaped a question mark.
My father, also unconscious, held the hand we gave him with surprising force. There was a strong sense of communication, of receiving and passing on.

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Vigil as dusk is reflecting on the table

Reflecting the Planets?

Is there a set of qualities that can be described very powerfully with the name of one planet?
Could I make ten self-portraits, one to reflect each of the planets?

Click on the cover to see a preview (the photos are a little distorted)

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Too desirable Madam? or HRO IN(2015)

More than ten years ago, I had a dream in which my family was robbing a bank, looking for a treasure in underground passages; it felt half-heroic, half-dishonest. A man stood up and died. Then a young woman and I had to hide in a flat and as we were trying to enter unnoticed a small crowd was looking at a yellow sports car. As I was describing this dream in the following days, I was asked what that yellow sports car could represent. More than one idea came to mind. After this dream whenever I saw a yellow sports car I was reminded of the dream and thought of a more showy, more visible part of me, and why not?
In May 2015, I had to collect my passport from South Kensington and saw this car in a showroom window. As I was trying to photograph it without my reflection the woman on the photograph said goodbye to the man and turned; she must have seen me and this was her reaction.
It is only when I was working on printing it that my friend Peter commented on the number plate. The name of the showroom is
H.R. Owen but of course it could be heroin or heroine.

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materia poetica

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The "known" materials of my life

Live slowly

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at Michaelhouse, this morning

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Reflections exhibition: Public Opening night

 

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Paint brushes

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Next Exhibition : Reflections

The next exhibition of CamIris, Women Photography Group will be in Michaelhouse, Cambridge between the 5th and 18th October.
The subject is REFLECTIONS and I have chosen to reflect on 10 self-portraits reflecting each set of characteristics attributed to each of the 10 Planets in astrology

Here is a preview with THE SUN, Creative Energies, Nature of Self

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Plans for the week-end?

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers – Emily Dickinson

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

"L'espoir" est cette chose à plumes –
Qui se perche dans l'âme –
Et chante la mélodie sans mots –
Sans jamais cesser –

Elle est à son plus doux - dans la tempête –
Et bien violent doit être le vent –
Qui pourrait intimider le petit Oiseau
Qui en a gardé tant au chaud –

Je l'ai entendu dans les pays les plus froids -
Et sur la Mer la plus étrange –
Pourtant - jamais – à la dernière extrémité,
Il ne m’a demandé une miette.

In The Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by R. W. Franklin (Harvard University Press, 1999)
Traduction Margot Krebs Neale

Labour day

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You are the artist, you are the raw material, you are the work of art, and you are the reality behind the work of art ... one experiences ecstasy when one discovers the creator in one, as oneself. The whole of life is a process whereby the unmanifest becomes manifest. Divine Creativity is completed by human creativity. Of all the qualities in your being, the one that is the most God-like is creativity.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan