Variations on a Theme
(Songs Without Words)
For me, music and photography have always been inextricably linked. Artists use both forms to elicit feelings, narrate stories, or otherwise express the inexpressible.
This idea was stated quite succinctly by Graham Nash who once observed: "To me there's absolutely no difference between photography and music. After all, I'm just playing with frequencies: light or sound."
Photographs have the ability, like music, to express thoughts that are often difficult to put into words.
The images in this portfolio, are a visual exploration of musical improvisation as represented in the life cycle of a moonflower. Like a musical note that exists in a moment of time and then is gone, so too the moonflower, which exists for only one night and then is gone forever.
Like a musician who can take a musical phrase and improvise a response to it, I approached this series the same way, recording my own responses, photographing the flowers on the vine just as I found them.
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