This is an abstraction of a piece of driftwood lying on the Esplanade Beach at Victor Harbor.
I came across it on a recent early morning poodlewalk with Kayla.
This abstraction was made whilst I was on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla:
It was early in the summer of 2019 (mid-January) as the early morning light was on the granite rock face.
Made whilst I was on an late afternoon poodlewalk with Maleko:
It was in mid-winter when the photo was made.
This macro quartz abstract was made towards the end of the 2019 winter whilst I was on an afternoon poodlewalk with Maleko. It was made on a calm day inbetween the various wild storms that battered the coast.
Some earlier quartz abstractions can be found here and here and here. This is one that I published in my Flickr stream.
This abstraction was made on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla during the late summer of 2019
I have never been able to find the site since. I do know the rough area in which this granite is located--its just west of Petrel Cove-- but I cannot find the detailed site amongst the different granite formations in the area.
Another in the quartz and lichen abstraction series:
This quartz and lichen formation is amongst the coastal granite rocks near Kings Beach Rd in Waitpinga, walking east towards Petrel Cove.
Another in the salt abstract series:
These salt ponds are very ephemeral. They only appear during the hot weather when the heat of the summer sun dries out the various rocks pools after a high tide.
This abstraction of a granite formation was made just west of Petrel Cove when I was on a poodlewalk with Kayla in the early morning:
I was working nearby on a series of salt abstractions at the time--mid February 2019--and I saw this rock formation.
Another image in the sea abstraction series that emerges from my daily walks along the coast of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula:
This was made in the summer of 2018 whilst on an afternoon poodlewalk with Maleko. I recall that I got very wet as a large wave swept over my feet and legs.
Below is the converted black and white version of the digital file:
There is not that much difference between these two interpretations.
As can be seen from the earlier images in this series---- here, here, here and here--- I do struggle with this series. Their emergence from my daily walks indicates that these abstractions reject the common view that abstraction is a withdrawal from the modern world, almost a safe house for art. Maybe this series refers to chance---standing on the rocks amongst the swirling sea waiting for the formation of a visual form/image?
This abstract photo was made in January 2019 whilst I was on a coastal poodlewalk along the southern Fleurieu Peninsula with Kayla. The picture or image was made in the early morning near from Petrel Cove in the summer light.
The word 'image’ often gets tied to the arbitrariness entailed in individual perception and opposed to the external solidity associated in the vocabulary of ordinary language philosophy with the ‘picture’. Susan Sontag held that images don’t tell us anything, they remind us what is important. This implies that the ‘image’ as a type of inner perception, or mental idea, impression or memory.
This can be interpreted along the lines that an image that exerts a hold and that lives beyond its medium presupposes an agent who is engaged by it, i.e., who finds it meaningful or significant. An image is a sensuous experience of meaning that organises a world. It possesses a communicative force that is surplus to its perceptible form.