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The images in this portfolio depict the mysteriously alluring and ephemeral patterns of fire.

Aesthetically, fire is mesmerizing, as it displays complex nested tonal
gradations and textures, adorned by graceful (and strangely organic appearing) whirls and tendrils of pure, raw energy.

The most striking feature of these photographs, philosophically speaking, is that they provide a glimpse of the unseeable. Since the exposure times for most of these images lie between 1/500th and 1/4000th of a sec - which is a slice of time far shorter than what our eyes need to "see" (and/or discern) patterns - they depict a reality that is fundamentally inaccessible to us.

More poetically, the patterns of fire may be likened to the abstract brushstrokes of illumination.

ilachina

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  June 6, 2008

Dimensions  Square  152 pgs  Premium Paper

Category  Fine Art Photography

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