Through a Glass Clearly

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