‘PRESENCE’ – Photograps by Bernard Rudden
Let me explain something of my photographic process. I don’t like to talk about making images much. I don’t know. I guess I am looking for something that I can’t say in words.
Although I feel it has something to do with presence. The readiness to prowl and peer into things. The shutter releases, a unique momet, an entry into a particular reality is recorded.
But in fact in all kinds of ways absent things leave “traces” of their themselves too, so presence is also absence. So there’s no hierarchy dominant in the image. It just is what it is in a way.
You just go around, and things come into view, like when you’re travelling to new places and things seem new.
I have no idea of the next photograph. Going with the co-arising of things, the changing randomness, I press the shutter.
I don’t really shoot other angles. I am only interested a particular thing and I don’t really know why I am drawn to this and not that. I am happy not to understand this.
Things are in constant flux. Color light form. It can never be the same way twice. Although habit insists it is and pull against you. That need to be broken, to recognize the traps. To see without fabrication.
For me color is feeling, a response, a set of relationships inherent in form and light, but there is secondary color too. There is subjective and objective color. I work to achieve the inner resonance of my primary response to the object. Like a tuning-fork makes a sound and you hear the sound. This is the primary response.
I could say the photograph has nothing to do with the thing photographed and all to do with do with the inner process. in many ways it feels that way yet without the object this state cannot be revealed- in fact they are interdependent. .Each contains its opposite
And the pictures are the traces of their presence and their absence simultaneously.
Let me explain something of my photographic process. I don’t like to talk about making images much. I don’t know. I guess I am looking for something that I can’t say in words.
Although I feel it has something to do with presence. The readiness to prowl and peer into things. The shutter releases, a unique momet, an entry into a particular reality is recorded.
But in fact in all kinds of ways absent things leave “traces” of their themselves too, so presence is also absence. So there’s no hierarchy dominant in the image. It just is what it is in a way.
You just go around, and things come into view, like when you’re travelling to new places and things seem new.
I have no idea of the next photograph. Going with the co-arising of things, the changing randomness, I press the shutter.
I don’t really shoot other angles. I am only interested a particular thing and I don’t really know why I am drawn to this and not that. I am happy not to understand this.
Things are in constant flux. Color light form. It can never be the same way twice. Although habit insists it is and pull against you. That need to be broken, to recognize the traps. To see without fabrication.
For me color is feeling, a response, a set of relationships inherent in form and light, but there is secondary color too. There is subjective and objective color. I work to achieve the inner resonance of my primary response to the object. Like a tuning-fork makes a sound and you hear the sound. This is the primary response.
I could say the photograph has nothing to do with the thing photographed and all to do with do with the inner process. in many ways it feels that way yet without the object this state cannot be revealed- in fact they are interdependent. .Each contains its opposite
And the pictures are the traces of their presence and their absence simultaneously.