Photography
Images belongs to mystical world. Your mind doesnt allow you to see beauty of the Nature. For a moment if I can create stillness in you where you can forget the world and watch these images then I believe my work has been Meditative.
Most of my content has been inspired by OSHO who has been my teacher for years, Thanks
I would like to create a space of silence inside you thru this blog. Come on let’s start
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Mr WordPress
August 15, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Sir,
Is it not just sensuality ?????
Madhu
April 4, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Just an opinion from another reader here…
My understanding of sensuality is that its more of a pre-defined view that “this is pleasure” and then we want more and more of it, leaving one unsatisfied in its absence.
Ideas I see here are different…
A quote by Dorothea:
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
So I feel a camera gives us an excuse to capture the quieter moments of life, and again conveys the same to me the reader/viewer as well. And ultimately as Dorothea has said (or atleast, my interpretation!) … the camera itself loses its importance and teaches us to see even without it. The photos and writings here remind me about the importance of looking at things more deeply, else just that I’m missing them otherwise
Hmm… basically, more alive!
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed”
Sanjay M
April 5, 2007 at 7:05 am
The photographs are beyond description and beyond words.
It shows the depth and profoundness of Suresh and his dexterity with the instrument (camera).
No doubt abt it.
They remind me of descriptions in JK’s “Commentaries on Living”.
After reading that series even a dew drop used to rob my attention.
But, beauty is predefined notion.
Why we respond only to flowers, sunsets, birds and dew drops and why not we equally moved by dying destitutes on the street side of our cities.
In other words why only flowers and other beautiful things are the subjects for artists/photographers and why not appaling suffering and pain which is pervasive around us.
Madhu
April 5, 2007 at 12:45 pm
hi Suresh I’d tried twice to post a comment here, when time permits please see if its in the moderation queue, quite likely as it had a couple of hyperlinks, thanks.
Sanjay M
April 9, 2007 at 8:47 am
Really relevant point, Madhu.
Took some time to digest it.
Made me recall a somewhat related discussion with an Englishman years ago, had put it up on my old site.
What I currently feel is, at times we are caught in a mechanical life, buried under everyday things, bound and sometimes throttled by self-imposed limitations. Then, we are neither appreciating nature, nor least of all any dying destitute anyway!
Appreciating beauty (even with the limited pre-conceived perception) perhaps in these photos or in dew drops or nature, I feel make more sense when they’re not an end by themselves. The dew drops will dry up, the flowers will wither, and everything else is changing as well And even me – who is appreciating – has grown older by a few minutes and has that much less time to live.
So this appreciation could then be only a beginning. A beginning where the ability to appreciate, the ability to pause and wonder (as Einsten has said) – the ability to pay attention – is strengthened.
And then as the ability strengthens, then perhaps it becomes quite inevitable (as it has been in my case at least) to become more sensitive to the appalling suffering and pain as well.
Ultimately going inwards, to where it all starts.
And discovering that like the beauty, the suffering is not forever either.
And continuing as if nothing ever happened, but in any case, I was not the same as before – there’s an inexplicably radical fresh perception.
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[note: I am merely another reader of this site, taking the liberty of writing my personal opinions here as Suresh has not yet banned me from spamming his site
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Sanjay M
April 9, 2007 at 4:49 pm