Title
Becoming from a Wake of Resistance
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Circa 1964 this image was thought to be lost for many years. It is a directly connected image to the decades of work which spans photography, drawing, painting and image generation that has preoccupied my 60 plus years as a human being. It marked a direction that would become my opus before such was conscious or imagined.
The story of its coming to be is laid out in my first published manuscript, yet by mounting it among other works - all of which came after it, many of whom coming to rest at one side or another of the paradox which this image metaphors - viewers would have no idea as to how it played such an important role in my creative endeavors and the entirety of life's event. In contemporary lingo, we could say that this image was my 'branding'; though I never thought of it in those terms, because such trite, would only shake off the marvelous mystery of implications and uniqueness.
All the dichotomies, whose friction supplied the energy and dynamics that nurtured my volition, are present in this one moment of reality. Representation, abstraction, ambiguity, empathy; activeness vs. passivity, et al. More importantly how the image 'haunted' in memory, for many years, that it existed, needed to be found (searched for), be seen, exhibited and talked about.
And in searching for it, so many times, I was forced into remembrance through boxes of nostalgia...all of which had me replaying my triumphs, tribulations and forgotten experience of journey.
At the moment of its capture, surrounded in nature's wild and wonder, the youthful mind so absorbed to render the 'real' of it all, could never have believed that it would one day be absorbed to the Imaginal, ambiguity of subjective abstractions... 10jan17 tdp
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Added 8nov23 -
'Becoming from a Wake of Resistance' 1964 photo of water running[flowing] over a leaf that is snared and resisting its journey in the flow itself; how many metaphors and paradoxes are captured in one click of a camera?...
Only a free and open mind can answer...I am reminded here, visualize, Heraclitus’ philosophy Panta Rhei, flow, and countless implications that are stirred... -tdp
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January 19th, 2015
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