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An Artist reflection
stepping into freedom and imagination.
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Finding my way home. That's what I'have been saying too. We want to go home. It's time to go home!
When I am photographing, I notice many different things. It all starts from the moment I feel like a lady, a woman who is excitedly going to the theater. There is a play waiting, magic transforms into an image. Colors, light, lines, patterns and textures. These design elements work in my mind to grab and hold my attention and prompt me to slow down and consider making an image. That is when my breath is calming down and my focus is sharp.
To me each one of the elements or combinations of them elicit emotional responses in me – make me feel something. Color and light blend with texture, soft and rough and gritty.
What resonates within me and the connection I feel towards what my eyes see leads me in a direction for creating an image capturing the moment so it never will be lost .
My mood or state of mind at the time I am shooting is directly influenced by what I see and feel.
Flowing water, arching trees, perfect petals, uplifting colors, shapes and soft backgrounds, my theatrical play of everyday beauty.
When I look back on certain images, I am often able to remember my temperament of that specific moment as well as how it influenced what I saw and where I went with it visually. This is why I couldn’t add the pictures below to the already existing foto story, where some of this pictures would belong. The moment of that photo story was gone, I traveled in a different space and time, I couldn’t go back …. Is life not all about moving forward bending into the flow and patterns of the moment?
Whatever holds my attention, there is where I am in the full present moment.
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I want to express myself, laughing and crying next to you. I do.
You’re wrong, we’re all wrong, there is only one sky, and the sky is blue .
The plants are green .
The horses eat grass while the cat has silver hair and holds golden light.
so many impossible possibilities!
Good morning, my sense of taste & wonder.
Alice came home, from her trip miles she traveled.
Two worlds ... between a wild Ocean.
My Soul in wonder a little raw & still sweet,
breathing deep sharing air.
We are all connected, no land to far.
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To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you.
And know there is more
That you can’t see, can’t hear,
Can’t know except in moments
Steadily growing, and in languages
That aren’t always sound but other
Circles of motion.
Like eagle that Sunday morning
Over Salt River. Circled in blue sky
In wind, swept our hearts clean
With sacred wings.
We see you, see ourselves and know
That we must take the utmost care
And kindness in all things.
Breathe in, knowing we are made of
All this, and breathe, knowing
We are truly blessed because we
Were born, and die soon within a
True circle of motion,
Like eagle rounding out the morning
Inside us.
We pray that it will be done
In beauty.
In beauty.
Joy Harjo
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Thank you for being here—for thinking about words, exhibit in painting and photography , what they mean, and the weight they hold.
thank you Antonella,
thank you Catalina,
© 2025 Suzanne Simons