Title
As Wavering in Vagueness as 'Noetic Light'
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
With no ridge of high pressure in sight, what little light illuminating the sky appears to be 'entrapped' by churning clouds vying for our favor, all the time devouring more and more of the light.
Or might we conclude the light as: 'The Light', so treating it hermetically as a mechanism that moves us through the substances of both mind and matter alike? And as a vertical composition my tendency is to think of dear Hermes, as he carries his 'message' [imply] from shadowy, remote recesses, to the furthest universe and the heavens!
The "Hermetic Function", should not be confused with Hermeticism - or other theological issue! Search engines seem to have No need for this 'mechanism' of which I am speaking; yet it has proved to be a most instrumental notion that has assisted my creative activity since it was first proposed to me far back in the '80s.
It is merely the mindfulness that Hermes was a 'messenger'; his 'Function' as messenger was to transport information between the three worlds (so to speak) we find along an 'imaginary' line (so to speak) entailing: heaven, earth and nether world.
Aesthetically speaking, we might envision it as 'active' - and many artists have thought it so - as other than 'passive' or merely present (still, silent, at rest). Personally the idea resonates in my way of seeing images - but that does not say that 'horizontal' is less appreciated; it has its own 'function', necessity and consequence.
That divergence, though needed, takes us far from what most speaks to me in this singular image - on this day in time if none other. And even that this image always struck me for its impression of 'forces compressed together', today as well it refers as much so to the 'light' that is entrapped and at the mercy to the humid substance that snares it!
I could content myself with the realities surrounding the image and its capture - the season and such - but that is evident from the trees. Yet again, there is much turbulence and compression in our present times - and little relief reverberating.
But as well as all of that, there is also a 'feeling' ushered by the many elements composed, that hints to the hardly distinguishable notions of what some call: the Noetic Light - in its suggest as 'the sun of the intelligible realm'. Such ideation is to be found in all that is possible... when looking at creative images and the like.
And that in itself gives me pause, filled with hope, but more so resolute of Faith!
2jan21 - tdp
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January 2nd, 2021
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