IMAGERY HAS ALWAYS BEEN CENTRAL TO MY LIFE . . .
. . . heightened, possibly even seeded, when I tried, in vain, to convince my first grade teacher the front door of my home was really, really, really, blue!
Somehow, the blue door on my still damp watercolor didn’t match her own vision of reality.
Whether created by the spoken word, by images, by sounds, or quietly written; building upon visions has guided me down many paths.
One meandering path I'd often returned to was of a somewhat quirky film editor, writer-producer, award-winning (including Emmy’s) filmmaker-videomaker. Always, at every moment, looking out-in for the silent spaces.
Now retired, my separate-personal, photography space continues to be a game of discovery. Of discovering, of collecting, wee bits of silence in and between moments. Those who recognize this stillness are invited to fill silent spaces with their own personal stories, meaning and/or emptiness.
More recently, I’ve been experimenting with pairing short, evocative writings with each of my images.
Though the vast majority of my photographs are spontaneous; I kinda' think of them as the children of "gentle passion", "post-meditation", “whimsy”, “formalism”, and a "blue door"!
- Stan
p.s., list of exhibitions and awards at: recognition
