There’s a moment when you notice something. Something that catches and teases. It may be the curve of a tree or the lightness of a feather drifting on a warm spring breeze … unseen but for its effect upon the small things. Mostly for me it’s about the light. The way light plays with the things around us and renders them beautiful or dramatic … the darkness of shadows and that gradient between glow and gloom. Sometimes it’s about trying to capture and entire world inside something much smaller … concentrating it … refracting it back at myself through the transience of a water droplet or a glass sphere.
It is as much about the journey of a photograph. A sinuous chasing down of the beauty you saw that very first time, the tender play and rendering of a picture until a certain essence is revealed … a little something of what was seen made manifest and shared.
That’s what these pictures are. They’re little fragments of time and space collected and coalesced and placed on walls … distilled results of the myriad journeys undertaken to create them.
In these I hope to show you just a little something of the thing I saw.
The collection of images on show.
About the Title
Through a Glass, Clearly is a collection of four short stories written by Isaac Asimov and first published in 1967. One story in particular: It’s Such A Beautiful Day, is set in the year 2117 and presents District A-3, a newly built suburb of San Francisco, and the world’s first community to be built entirely using Doors, a method of travel via teleportation.
When the Door that transfers him from home to school fails, Richard “Dickie” Hanshaw takes a dislike to the method and starts to wander outside in the unfamiliar open, exposed to the elements. When he catches a cold, Mrs. Hanshaw is horrified and takes him to see Dr. Sloane, a psychiatrist, afraid that her son’s wanderings are signs of a mental abnormality…
Geoffrey Dunn is a multi-award winning and internationally published photographer. He is entirely self-taught. Through a Glass Clearly is his third and final solo exhibition for 2014. The title of the show is also a reference to the act of capturing light with a camera … through a glass clearly…
The details…
- What: Through a Glass Clearly – New photographic works by Geoffrey Dunn
- Where: The Front Gallery – Wattle Street, Lyneham, Canberra
- Duration: 17-29 September 2014
- Opening: 6pm Friday 19th September 2014
Links
- MEDIA RELEASE Geoffrey Dunn – Through a Glass Clearly
- Show postcards: Front and Back
- The Front Cafe & Gallery
- My printer – Stephen Best of Macquarie Editions
fantastic work, best of luck for the show, Geoff!
Thanks Elena … I find it all a little simultaneously nerve-wracking and exciting! 🙂
enjoy yourself 🙂
Thanks Gabe … I’ll be that much happier when it’s framed and hung! It’s all a little scattered at the moment 🙂
Oooh. And ahh. Your work is stunning.
I am not going to wish you luck – but appropriate recognition.
Hehehe … thanks Sue 🙂
Just hope that someone actually comes along to see it 😉
Great work, Geoffrey, very best with the show!
Thank you Elena … I’m looking forward to it despite my outward reticence!
can you believe this, I finally got the little glass sphere back I got from you and left in Singapore, unthinkingly. two years later and I am holding it in my hands again 🙂
Hehehe … I thought you’d forgotten all about it ;-P
I look forward to seeing what you can do with it… 🙂 x
Great glass work.
Thank you Sally … I love glass … and water … and pictures … all good things coming together here 🙂
I like especially the picture of the tree path. Just sooooooooooooo beautiful!!! Mari
Thanks Marialla … it was cold that morning … it really was 🙂
Great work, Geoffrey. I like the idea of a theme, through glass. Good look with the show!
Thanks Otto … my apologies for not having been around much to go visiting 🙂
Ha, I saw what you did here. This post looked different (and still does in my reader) when I read it first, with less pictures and words. Tststs 🙂
Nice selection. I remember almost all of them, except the one with the hut, and their stories. All the best for the show!
I know … sneaky huh? 🙂
The ‘glass-clearly’ link was already out there and I didn’t want to create another, competing post to essentially promote the same thing … so I sneaked in and changed it. The show’s essentially up and although it doesn’t officially open until tomorrow evening I know that folks have been slipping behind the curtain to have a look already 🙂
You know, sometimes I look at the work and wonder whether it really was me that created it … the two mindsets, creation and exhibition are so far apart in my mind … ahhh I think there may be a blog post in that! 🙂
‘Starfield’ is utterly breathtaking. And I love ‘daily commute’ as well.
Thank you 🙂
Should you find yourself in town you can see them for your very own 😉
Hope it goes well, I love the selection particularly the first, it is superb.
Thanks. It certainly seems to be going well. If by the first you refer to the monochrome drop photo, I had that printed up to 900x600mm and it looks great writ large 🙂
A brilliant collection Geoffrey, love them all!
Thanks Patti 🙂
They look great all framed up and on the wall 🙂
wow, wonderful pics! the title pic is just awesome and you know i love the rainbow and the stars. beautiful! chasing light, that’s what it basically is about. what it is about from the heart – in my opinion. those are the real ones.
Thanks 🙂
My apologies for this rather overdue reply 🙂