About this collection:
I have been enamored of Japanese ink painting and Zen pottery for many years, something about the quiet yet powerful emotion they capture.
On my daily walk a year or so ago, I started watching the sidewalk pavement ... patterns of leaves, twigs and stones, man-made and natural structures, all interacting. I started to see some vague shadow of the ink paintings and pottery I liked in the multitude of unique, brief patterns.
I started photographing the sidewalk and other bits in the surroundings of my walk at first with an idea to produce something in monochrome that would emulate the feel of those Zen works of art. Then the colors of the scenes I had witnessed started to draw me in. And as the color called to me, the subject matter broadened, the notion went beyond just the twigs, leaves and pavement it started from, went beyond emulating other art into something of its own.
I hope you can feel the quiet and the power that peeks back at me.
- Godfrey
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