Hubris
There are times when no matter how much you try to bridge the gap, understanding is inaccessible. Niobe’s story is about the sin of hubris. She is weeping the murder of her 7 sons and 7 daughters (some say only…
Month June 2019
Glimpses
In this image I wanted to broach the subject of the ephemerality of tourism. I equated the shortness (of ephemera) with blur and the idea of a glimpse. To do this, I composed the photograph to blur the tourists, while…
The World Values Survey
The cultural map changes iover time from 1981 to 2015. By Bi Puranen, Secretary General of the World Values Survey Quoting from the World Values Survey Web Site: The World Values Survey (www.worldvaluessurvey.org) is a global network of social scientists…
Layers of History
As with the previous post, this scene is interesting to me because in one image we can see nearly 2000 years of history, layered from bottom to top, situated on rock that has prevailed from the times before human existence.…
Distortions in Time and Space
As noted earlier, I am interested in the shape and distortions of space. In this square, Place de la République, we see the convergence of multiple times and histories: the old Roman obelisk, mounted on a 19C pedestal hosting the…