This book is a visual meditation on one of nature’s basic patterns: perceived order.
The images collected here were all captured partly with a physicist’s "eye" for objective order as a manifestly physical property of nature; and partly with an artist's appreciation of subjective order, whose meaning is local and intensely personal.
I hope that this book can also serve as a palimpsest of the author’s, and reader’s, process of self discovery: as elements of order are quietly revealed.
27 of the 84 photographs in this book were exhibited in a solo show at the Books & Books art/book store, 265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, Florida, 5-31 Dec 2007.
About the Author
andrew ilachinski
ilachina
Northern Virginia, USA
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 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 a "Sudden Stillness."
Publish Date January 28, 2008
Dimensions Standard Landscape 130 pgs
Premium Paper, matte finish
Category Fine Art Photography
Tags black and white, exhibit catalog, fine-art photography, florida, nature, abstract, spiritual, landscapes, duotones
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