“Before I turned fifty, I had not yet given birth to myself in the landscape. Not that I treated the landscape as a mediocre thing, but I let the landscape exist independently and on its on.” But now “the landscape … Continue reading
from the darkness, light
As winter melts away….
This banner now hangs at the St. Saint Paul Lutheran Church, located in Lanesville Cape Ann, Massachusetts. For a little bit more you can read Pastor Anne Deneen’s Sermon from March 8th, 2011:
Yesterday I began to quote from Tennyson’s poem ‘Merlin and the Gleam.’ Several years after selecting a website named, “Follow the Gleam,’ I came across this poem, and the verses follow the quarry wall profile. Actually the words convey how … Continue reading
I. O YOUNG Mariner, You from the haven Under the sea-cliff, You that are watching The gray Magician With eyes of wonder, I am Merlin, And I am dying, I am Merlin Who follow The Gleam. MERLIN AND THE GLEAM … Continue reading
“I come and stand before these abandoned quarry walls, and gaze through them, now they are as fluid as the ocean. And as the oceans swell, and waves repeat their reassuring sound, the granites speak to me of yearning and … Continue reading
Early yesterday morning I was walking with a friend through Flat Ledge Quarry and in climbing back down over loose scree, I spied this form. I photo’d with my iphone at first, but as the day progressed and moisture and … Continue reading
As the ice builds, collapses, and reforms along the quarry wall, the dark greens, purples, oranges and blues persist. The ice remains as a silent spectator. I look at the ice at first, and then see beyond and below it.
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“Chapters on a Quarry Wall (CQW),’ became the title and focus of my photographic work centered on the abandoned quarries of Cape Ann. CQW followed me to New York and the ‘Works on Paper Show in 2002-2003. And as I … Continue reading
