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Contemplative Photography combines the practice of seeing with the age-old practice of mindfulness.
Dec 19-22 George DeWolfe Contemplative Photography
Please speak with Cathy Cone at Cone Editions Press for detailed information, to reserve a place, and any questions you may have concerning these workshops. (802) 439-5751 #101
$1,500 - 4 day course – Tuesday through Friday. Classes are 9a – 5p at Cone Editions Studio in East Topsham, VT – limited to a maximum of 8 and a minimum of 4. Workshop takes place 9am - 5pm each day at Cone Editions Press. Each attendee has their own computer workstation with a connected Piezography printer. Each workstation is networked to an EPSON 4000, EPSON 4800, and EPSON 7600. There are 4 large format EPSON printers with the four hues of PiezoTone inks and a Piezography Neutral K7 large format printer. There are several scanners for attendee use, but most attendees prefer to contract the studio prior to their attendence to have Cone Editions scan their originals on the Hell 3400 drum scanner (at additional costs). There are many different papers to choose to print from Hahnemuhle, Bradford Papers, Legion Papers and others.
We begin as children seeing the world as a mystery. The mind absorbs and reflects the
experiences of youth as a stainless mirror, and continually adds them to the knowledge bank of neurons. These stored memories combine and create another world, the conceptual world, where ideas and unlikely combinations of invisible elements stir constantly in the alembic of the mind. Somewhere along the road to adulthood, the mind accepts this other conceptual world as the real one. It is the purpose of Contemplation to return us to the world of the real, and the role of Contemplative Photography is to express it. Contemplative Photography is where a calm and aware mind unites with the primary elements of human vision. It is the clear visual expression of reality.
Contemplation is paying attention, right now, wherever you are. Contemplation notices
things that cannot be accessed by language. It allows us to be calm and aware of our events and surroundings. Contemplation is neither frivolous nor spiritual. It is human. It is a skill. It is a choice. Thomas Merton called it, “...the direct intuition of reality...a direct grasp of the unity of the visible and the invisible...a plain fact, a pure experience, the very foundation of our being and thought.”
When practiced skillfully and over time, contemplation can attenuate or even cure most human mental cares such as fear, anxiety, desire and stress – cares that begin with the conceptualizing nature of the human mind. When practiced in conjunction with art, it is one of the highest, and yet paradoxically one of the humblest, expressions of human life. It is seeing like a child, in mystery.
Contemplative Photography is just such a practice. It combines the practice of seeing with the age-old practice of mindfulness. Rather than just seeing like we do most of the time, dualistically and conceptually bound, we see calmly and are totally aware of what is in front of us in the moment. We see objects and relationships as one with no preconceived conceptual baggage.– Contemplative Photography proceeds from the correct perception of reality to the clear expression of it. It is different from other types of photography in that it demands nothing from us and nothing from the object. It is an expression of the pure visual nature of reality as it unfolds in front of us in the moment. Learning Contemplative Photography requires that we tear down the conceptual edifice that was unknowingly created from infancy by our culture and reconstruct a new one: a
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