Venus photos

Bill,
your photographs of the exhibit and tapestry are wonderful. A word that comes to mind when I view them is ‘perspective’. That you and your camera have captured a moment in time thru a perspective like no one elses.
I have been thinking a lot lately about how we ’see’…. For me ’seeing’ involves not only the physical… the eyes and all the senses; it involves the mental and the spiritual….a wholeness that includes attention and presence and willingness.
Attention to what is around us in that moment. It becomes an exercise in observation. I realize that ‘what’ I see and ‘how’ I see are 2 different things.
Presence in the moment. This is a process that starts with a breath and centering. It is internal as well as external. It turns off the mind chatter and choses to engage my senses with what has shown up in that moment.
Willingness to engage. This is a choice that opens curiosity, imagination, acceptance, questioning.
Who taught us to see? What do we pay attention to? What do we miss? How do we learn to see more? deeper? And what of shadow and light?
What these photographs do….. is show me another view of the loom, the community tapestry…. thru the rounded and distorted lenses that create another kind of beauty, another picture… than what I see with my eyes within the actual space of the gallery and foyer. What these photographs do is open me to the tangible reality that every one of us has differing outlooks, vision, insights…. I am reminded to open my eye of awe and stretch!