A Circle Drawn in the Sand By Grass, Island Beach State Park, NJ
by Stephen Russell Shilling
Title
A Circle Drawn in the Sand By Grass, Island Beach State Park, NJ
Artist
Stephen Russell Shilling
Medium
Photograph - Photograph - Archival Pigment Print
Description
You can feel out of place as a photographer. I often I do. You’re a detached participant, an observer. You’re a follower lead by whatever you find interesting. You follow the light, follow the activity. You hope to find the poetry of it all.
I followed families, fish and feathered gulls. I followed sand pipers and footprints. I followed plastic bags, the castaways of midday meals. I followed fisherman that moved, fighting the wind, the rain and the spray of splashing waves, and those who sat statuesque in their status surveying their surroundings. I followed paths and walked along fences that disappeared into dunes, man’s hand buried by time. I followed my feet to the edge of the world searching for that oceanic feeling where the one and the other are not separate. I followed the dance of the wind racing off waves writing itself upon the landscape in endless perfect first drafts.
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October 22nd, 2022
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