TITLE: Perspectival
The [viewer] is arrested by the invitation to clasp an outstretched hand and is caught in a moment of time when something might happen. ~Scott Brewster
“Perspectival’s” photographic images seem to hold you captive within the parallel, converging lines, but are boundless in the impression of depth and distance. By invitation, charm, and challenge, the images draw your eye to the distance, indicating a door closing, a chance about to be lost, and reminding you this very moment is not timeless. You must consciously pause to be captivated in this very moment within the image.
Being mindful of the moment means taking this time of photographic capture to draw from beyond yourself, beyond where you stand at your start of the bridge, your opening to the sky, your continuance of travel, and your viewing the pinnacle. You will not pass by this exact place again in your life in the same way. You change and your context changes, changing the moment in the image—this moment of your life as you stop to be mindful, meditative, thinking of this moment before what comes next.
“Perspectival’s” monochrome shades join in the simplicity of mediation, reminding us that all that is wonderful in people, the world, and life doesn’t need to be brilliant with a rainbow of colors—the best and most meditative is often found in the simplest of forms or moments. Life goes on, but before you move on, you capture moments of your life like this to consider the perspective of meaning in just being.
AUTHOR: Y. Hope Osborn (United States)
Y. Hope Osborn is an author, photographer, digital artist, editor, and web designer residing in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Her published writing includes ecological experiences that educate and entertain and personal traumas that encourage survivors and expose victimization. She photographs the jewels of color landscapes, mindful of unique, momentary beauty. She composes black and white abstract and documentary photographic studies of historic and timeworn architecture in rich tonality, vivid texture, and creative perspective alongside texts of history and her story, weaving art with how she/we think, feel, believe, connect, and care.
Hope has an MA in Professional and Technical Writing and is published as author and artist with Woods Reader, Plants and Poetry Journal, Whitefish Review, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Writers’ Network, Awakenings, and The Sunlight Press, including blogs, Fusion Arts and Red Cross. Her works are exhibited and awarded, including Monovisions Awards, Neutral Density, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, International Photography Awards, Architecture Masterprize, and See|Me, internationally, online, and off in Portland, Oregon; New York City; Santa Paula, California, Arkansas—USA and Barcelona, Spain. She was awarded the Not Real Art Artist Award and Mud-America Arts Alliance Catalyze grants,
Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.
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