Tao of Photography
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Appearances

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"The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception. It is as if the stuff of whi...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Namelessness

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"There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious ...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Impermanence

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"I don’t know why we long so for permanence, why the fleeting nature of things so disturbs. With futility, we cling to the old wall...
Monday, February 11, 2019

The Extraordinary Ordinary

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"Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform them by photographing them...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Palimpsests and Dreams

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"I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re t...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Time Has No Divisions

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"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of...
Tuesday, January 08, 2019

Expansive Existence

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"There was an epoch in the Night of Time, when a still-existent Being existed—one of an absolutely infinite number of similar Being...
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Monday, December 31, 2018

Veiled and Hidden

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"Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but ...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

Mathematical Language

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"Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes - I mean the universe - but we cannot understand...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Mysterious Order

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"The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge...
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Andy Ilachinski
Virginia, United States
I am, by training and profession, a physicist, specializing in the modeling of complex adaptive systems (with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics). However, both by temperament and inner muse, I am a photographer, and have been one for far longer than my Ph.D. gives me any right to claim an ownership by physics. Photography became a life-long pursuit for me the instant my parents gave me a Polaroid instamatic camera for my 10th birthday. I have been studying the mysterious relationship between inner experiences and outer realities ever since. My creative process is very simple. I take pictures of what calms my soul. There may be other, more descriptive or poetic words that may be used to define the “pattern” that connects my images, but the simplest meta-pattern is this: I take snapshots of moments in time and space in which a peace washes gently over me, and during which I sense a deep interconnectedness between my soul and the world. Not Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment,” but rather a "Sudden Stillness." My favorite quote: "That which you are seeking is doing the seeking." (St. Francis of Assissi)
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