PHOTOGRAPHING THE SUN
When all our perspectives are aligned, the light shines through.
The Labyrinth in Icarus Survives is not only the physical building, it is a Psyopticon. It is the psychological framework of dead ends, and labyrinthine endless paths to nowhere, causing a blindness to personal potential and possibility. It is more than just the environment, it is what Icarus has been led to believe from the dogma of the oppressive paternal impact of Dadelus, his narcissistic father. Here, Icarus escapes, survives and you can see the abstract photographs of the Sun as his exhilarating flight.
ICARUS SURVIVES
When all our perspectives are aligned, the light shines through.
The Artworks
This book is both a visual narrative and an extensive catalog of my photographic artworks. The narrative launches with the myth, and many artworks after the labyrinth can be viewed simply as Icarus’ exciting joy and thrill of flying free. The abstract artworks, primarily film photography span the years 2007- 2025 and include artworks that have been widely exhibited and collected by people, public institutions and held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art.
The photography includes 4x5 and medium format film, cyanotype and digital. This book is composed primarily of art from my Meta-Landscapes series and along with “House of Perception” and “Sun Mountain Wild Vision” is part 3 in the “Wild Vision” trilogy.
$30.00
A Meta-Landscape Narrative
Part 3 in the Wild Vision Trilogy.
2025
Soft cover. 8.5” x 11”, full color. Perfect bound
Meta-Landscapes, where image falls apart and vision begins.
Sun Mountain Wild Vision is a surreal visual tone poem. As the prescribed notions of landscape, photograph are deconstructed, notions of visual perception as metaphor for thinking freely emerge. The story arcs to the visual emptiness, an emptiness full of potential, like feeling emptied, having removed constraints, and then feeling the freedom that comes with the emptiness, the notion of Sunyata. Boundless.
Sun Mountain Wild Vision
The artworks in this book are film photographs which I have made along the Northern California shoreline. The freeing space of the California coast where so many of us have had the landscape and wind bring the knowledge of how to create oneself anew.
“Sun Mountain Wild Vision” is a liberating odyssey of radical, subconscious vision, free seeing. Part 2 in the Wild Vision Trilogy.
2017
Soft cover
8.5” x 11”, gloss full color
Perfect bound
