Tag: portraiture

Emily Thorne: “Who We Are and Whom We Pretend to Be”

Collection: The Ten Faces

“As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.“ The battle between these two halves of identity…Who we are and who we pretend to be, is unwinnable. “Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. A duality governed by the balance of light and darkness, within each of us is the capacity for both good and evil. But those who are able to blur the moral dividing line hold the true power.”

–Emily Thorne

Rumi: “All the Secrets of Language Will No Longer Be Secret”

Photographer Unknown, (Wooden Cage)

“I may be clapping my hands, but I don’t

belong to a crowd of clappers. Neither

this nor that, I’m not part of a group

that loves flute music or one that loves

gambling or drinking wine. Those who

live in time, descended from Adam, made

of earth and water, I’m not part of that.

Don’t listen to what I say, as though

these words came from an inside and went

to an outside. Your faces are very

beautiful, but they are wooden cages.

You had better run from me. My words

are fire. I have nothing to do with

being famous, or making grand judgments,

or feeling full of shame. I borrow

nothing. I don’t want anything from

anybody. I flow through human beings.

Love is my only companion. When union

happens, my speech goes inside toward

Shams. At that meeting all the secrets

of language will no longer be secret.”

― Rumi, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Estatic Poems

 

Norman Maclean: “I Am Haunted by Water”

Photographer  Unknown, (Out on the River)

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

One Man Seen Twice

Photographer Unknown, (One Man Seen Twice), Selfies

“The frame, the definition, is a type of context. And context, as we said before, determines the meaning of things. There is no such thing as the view from nowhere, or from everywhere for that matter. Our point of view biases our observation, consciously and unconsciously. You cannot understand the view without the point of view.”
― Noam Shpancer, The Good Psychologist

 

KJ Heath, “Douglas Oglivie”

KJ Heath, “ Model: Douglas Oglivie”

KJ Heath is a Chicago, Illinois, based photographer whose work covers many types of subjects. He specializes in people, fashion and fitness photography.

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