Title
How Temporal a Motif
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Had I known the truth of the consequence of time, might I spent more moments with the motifs that seemed invincible? Yet that I have watched in awe, nature's voracity, the lessons of its errie might are not strange to me...
But we are far along, from 1965, and the Kaaterskill's motifs have, by my eyes, countlessly transformed. If only a portion of a lifetime can experience such change of the Kaaterskill, what would Cole, Kennset, Durand or Church think today, to see their Kaaterskill once more?
The brilliant and diverse blend of color, explicit in this example, are long gone. Though the falls remain, it has long since changed. No longer does the cascade dampen this moss. In fact, what is seen here, has long dissolved, worn away by decades of torrents. Torrents laced with creek stones that are thrashed against the buttresses that form such falls; and the freezing and thawing of water, penetrating the meagerest fissure. If the drumbeat of stones might ever be stopped, the force of ice would continue nature's scheme...
Yet again, it is perhaps the promise of change that so draws the curious eye back, into the implications of nature's vision, finding its truth, experiencing it and noting it, as metaphor - if only laced of paradox, lesson of our own motif of temporality...
For those, who would one day visit the Kaaterskill Creek, the falls depicted are yet beautiful and called, Pine Grove; viewed best from Mill Road, in the hamlet of Palenville.
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NOTE: The image 'How Temporal a Motif' from1965, is not illustrated in the 'Prologue to The Nature that Loves to Hide'. Yet older [historical postcards] and newer photographs of Pine Grove and Palenville will be found.
Found at Blurb.com, this is the first in a series of books that express my thoughts on art, nature; the creative process and journey of an individual, spanning fifty years of creative involvements in photography, painting, print making, poetry, dream-work and the contemplation of life's 'Purposive Ambiguity'.
It is a narrative account of a creative life's unfolding, as well as an exampling of several liminal stages of aesthetic possibilities for a subject, passing through: realism, representational, surrealism, alchemy, non-objective, abstract, Abstract Expressionism and what still is unfolding from Modernism and Abstract Expressionism...It is also available as a PDF for class study.
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