A series of ImageSnippets galleries.
Over the years, I have always had a fondness for blurred, minimalist images. Not just any blurred images, but images that convey the passage of time frozen in unique and beautiful ways – often while being a passenger in a moving car down a roadway.
These are moments where the use of the camera has allowed me to register a zen like moment – as if I am a top, spinning very fast but internally finding stillness. And yet, those beautiful still moments are rare.
Mostly, we just spin – off in random directions, we fall over, pick ourselves back up and then start to spin again, chaotically pinging off objects and others – pushing, pulling and reacting – towards destinations – towards desire, away from aversion.
I feel the images produced in these moments are more than happy accidents. The eye naturally frames our moments into neat parcels of information, but the camera – as objective bystander – can itself be gyrated and manipulated such that the effects can be exaggerated. Thus there is magic, yes, and mood, but also more to see in the passage of landscapes and time. – Margaret Warren