The Chinese character for love - decoding character from top to bottom:
That which gives breath ("spirit") to the heart, with a graceful motion
Rose Quong
Chinese Characters: Their Wit and Wisdom
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All you need is love
One day several years ago sitting a car at the red light I had a revelation. It was about love. I was given a mission in life: to bring more love to this world with my photography. It is not love between man and woman, it is not a relationship love, no. It is more like love from heaven: bliss-like state, Zen. We all live our busy lives, overwhelmed with our daily problems, job, family. We think that it is all important. And it is. But deep inside we know there is something even more important. It is simple, yet very powerful. And it is so silly that we tend to ignore it. It is love. John Lennon was right: "All you need is love..."
Anyway, that is my purpose: make photographs that bring love. I am not the only one. There is an army of artists that constantly replenish a reservoir of positive energy in this world. And I don't believe that there is another army pumping reservoir of negative energy. No. There is just a drain hole of ignorance...
I think about art and photography all the time. I wake up in the morning with ideas in my head I went to sleep with. I perfect the craft of photography every day. I travel to remote places where air is pure and sweet to feed from the primordial spring of unspoiled landscape. And even though most of my work is landscape photography it is not all about nature and landscape. I don't mean to offer dream escape for city dwellers (and I'm one of them). I don't mean to mimic other landscape photographers whom a plenty. I offer not landscape, nor nature, but my interpretation of it, my conscience, my view. There is a saying that viewfinder of the camera is pointed not outside, but inside. My view is limited but it is unique and that is the gift I was given, that is what I have.
I need your help. Make it happen. I can do only half of my job, my mission: make photographs. Your choice is to do another half: look at them. That's where the mystery happens and message of love is been sent and received. I just cannot do it alone...
