This image of the WayMaking Cairn (WMC) was taken in late January 2015, just a stone’s throw from the Little Calumet River. As I’ve menioned in earlier posts, the WMC is one of many images in a subset of my contemplative photography work. It serves as an avatar-like manifestation of my spiritual engagement with my surroundings as I walk. In anthropological terms it serves as participant-observer in the environment where the shot was made. The excerpt from Robert Frost”s poem “Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter” created a rich dialogical exchange between the image and the text.
Contemplative Calendar – February 2018
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I write, I photograph, I sing, I create, I muse, I meditate, I contemplate, I wonder, I communicate, I improvise, I collaborate and I synthesize. I am an interdisciplinary artist that is exploring the world through the various sensibilities and intersecting forms of image, word, symbol, spirituality, nature, 2-D and 3-D art, sound and music. In my encounters with whatever and whomever life brings my way, I engage and respond with my art so as to question, examine-ate, elevate, re-purpose and transform. I am currently in the process of developing socially engaged installation works in the hopes of enriching, challenging, sustaining and transforming through the human art encounter. View more posts
Julie V Interdisciplinary Artist 