Winter Berries.
We are blind, our eyes work as they should, but we don’t see what is around us, our eyes are set on a screen and we rarely contemplate what the world has for us.
The reading “seeing” talks about someone who wanted to abandon her blindness. In the same way, I wanted to see things with a new set of eyes. While listening music and letting my mind wander I started to see colors and then everything was just a meaningless combination of figures. Then I found a tree with red winter berries, and the meaningless figures transformed into a series of images.
This series of photographs were inspired by the song ‘Atomos I’ by A Winged Victory for the Sullen, these are 12 selected images from a vast amount of photos that were inspired by this song.
The music starts with a slow stillness, at first, it feels some somewhat unintelligible. The first image represents the beginning of the creative process, that eventually takes the form.
The first part of the song makes me think about Nature, most of the trees and flowers grow with no human intervention, then we start building and invading the natural space with man made constructions.
Music always brings feelings, and this song, in particular, makes me feel contemplative, but at the same time, the song becomes a story. It doesn't have any words, but it feels like a narration. When the strings start playing the story develops, I see winter berries and all kinds of berries, I wonder how humans figured out which fruits were good and then I think about God and the story continues developing.
It is hard to describe the process of creativity, many ideas come and go, they evolve. As Annie Dillard explained in the reading, we start seeing things and they are not necessarily ordered, they seem random but somewhat connected. Like branches on a tree, our thoughts spread and create fruit, sweet berries.
Atomos I (Youtube)
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