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Abstract Images are a common feature in our minds and world

Abstract art can help us see parallels and sense echoes between our aesthetic expression and forms in science and nature.

Abstract image, Sonar Image, Floor Gulf of Mexico
Sonar Image, floor of the Gulf of Mexico

At first glance, these images appear to be abstract art. Under closer examination, we see that they are scientific images of the ocean floor indicating deposits of gas, crude oil, and voids.

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Sonar image of oil and gas reserves, Gulf of Mexico


Imaging of the brain produces similar abstract images.
We have a natural capacity to know these shapes and use them in abstract art. Upon deeper reflection, we realize that we have the capacity to understand and express these insights through art.
The cognitive function of the brain is what we refer to as the mind. Therein lies a universe of symbols and archetypes that manifest as innate knowledge. This may be why we are touched by abstract art. The art does not objectively describe something that exists as an object. It expresses something that we feel and know, almost like a memory from a dream

Oil, Gas, Reserves, Gulf of Mexico, Sonar Image,
Sonar Imaging showing oil and gas reserves, Gulf of Mexico

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The Role of Abstaction in Art and Science

Abstraction in our minds, art and science.

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Shape of Wind | Serene

Gulf of Mexico, Sandbank in Bahamas, Dune in Arabia illustrating the effects of wind. Fine Art photographic prints
Fine Art landscape prints illustrating the presence of wind and evoking serenity

Make your space serene with these fine art photographic prints. Abstract photography has the power to beautifully decorate a space and trigger an emotional sense of calm and serenity. You can select these prints or draw from my archive for similar images.

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Sandbank in the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas, illustrating the effects of wind.
Fine art image of a sandbank under the Atlantic Ocean in the Bahamas
Large sand dune in Saudi Arabia illustrating the effects of wind on sand dunes.
Fine Art Photography of Sand Dune, Saudi Arabia.
Wave in the Gulf of Mexico near Sarasota.
A wave in the Gulf of Mexico, illustrating the effects of wind.

There are realities we know even though we can’t see them. There are forces beyond those which we see. Wind is a clear example of this reality. We can’t see the wind. What we can see is the effect of the wind.

These three images are graphic examples of that fact. The first image is looking through the surface of the Atlantic Ocean at the shapes of a sandbank created by the wind and tides moving the sand under the water. We don’t see the wind even though it helped create these beautiful forms.

The second image shows an elegant line on the edge of a large sand dune in Arabia. The wind moves the millions of particles of sand, reshaping an enormous sand dune. Even when we can see sand blowing off the edge of a dune, we are not seeing the wind but what the wind left behind.

The third image is a familiar image of a wave being shaped by the partnership of the moon and the unseen wind.

We see the trees sway, the grass bend when the wind moves. Our knowledge of the natural world informs us that the wind is at work. A higher knowing is our intuition, which takes us beyond the physical plane to the dynamics of energy active in the atmosphere, where the recipe of the elements is creating the forces that shape life around us. When we attune to this alchemy, nature is given a chance to teach us that there is an inner knowing which goes beyond what we “know”.

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Shape of Wind

Fine Art images illustrating the shape of the wind in nature.

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Sometimes a picture leaves us with more questions than answers.

Take this image of Americas smallest Post Office.

Why is it so small? Why is here on the edge of the Florida Everglades? Having been exposed to so many hurricanes, how has it survived? Who uses it?

When I drove past the tinny building I stopped turned around and took a closer look.

I realized the picture I was going to make was less about the documentation of the architecture and more about the feeling it triggered the stories I imagined.

Who was the postmaster? How many people used it. If it wasn’t there how many people would be affected. What kind of relationship did the customers have with the postmaster? When was it built and why? The unanswered questions go on and on.

The saying is “ever picture tells a story.”

I’d propose that some of the more interesting pictures often leave the story unfinished with more questions than answers.

Keeping some mystery in your life.

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Unanswered Questions

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The lushness of lilies
Put beauty and energy on your walls.

I create images that go beyond simply representing the subject; they capture its emotional intensity.

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Excite your Walls

Images that go beyond the ordinary to express emotion

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A look at the nomadic lifestyle in Arabia

I am honored to have my work about the Bedu of Arabia featured in the current issue of ETHMED online magazine. The values of this traditional and ancient way of life have persisted for over five thousand years and have adapted to modern life in the 21st century.

It was one of the highest honors of my life to be accepted by the clans of the Al Amrah and Al Erq of the Al Murrah tribes to live with them and document their way of life. From 1980 to the present I continue to maintain a relationship with the clans and learn so much about respect, honor, relationships, loyalty, survival, and adaptation a few of the values that define nomadic life among the Bedu of Arabia.

Gathering at the wedding of Mohammed Alerq. Social protocol demands that everyone sit in a circle. Dahna Sands, Saudi Arabia
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Nomadism

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The moon sits like a silent eye in the sky observing the earth.

Its phases serve as markers of time.

The lunar eclipse reminds us in dramatic and beautiful ways that there are three of us sharing the heavens; the sun, moon, and earth. 

The physical phases of the moon; new, full, waxing, waning, bright, dark, rising, and sitting all serve as visual poetry about life as seen in the cycles of the moon. The reappearance of the moon every night is a reminder about the passage of time and while each day things change there is reassurance in the constancy of the moon. 

Partial Lunar Eclipse of the Full Moon November 19, 2021, as seen from Sarasota, Florida, rendered in Black and White.
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“Blood Moon” of the Partial Lunar Eclipse November 19, 2021
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Full Moon November 19, 2021 also known as the “beaver moon” and “blood moon”. Observed from Sarasota, Florida.

“The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist…. When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.”  D.H. Lawrence, Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence. pt.4, 1930  

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Phases of the full moon during a partial lunar eclipse November 19, 2021.

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“Blood Moon” during the partial lunar eclipse.
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Partial lunar eclipse, black and white print.
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Partial Lunar Eclipse “Beaver Moon” aka “Blood Moon”

Phases of the full moon during the partial lunar eclipse of the Beaver Moon aka a Blood Moon, November 19, 2021

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Drama and beauty, created by nature over Sarasota Bay observed by Wayne EASTEP

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Cedar tree, Mesa Verde, Colorado, Fine Art
Cedar tree, Mesa Verde, Colorado

Time and life’s conditions bring about change. This cedar tree with the markings of wind, rain and snow, deep cold and searing sun shows us that beauty and grace remain even though the cedars stately and grand posture has passed.

Cedar tree, Mesa Verde, Colorado.

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Beauty of Change

Reflection on the beauty and grace to be seen in change.

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This mission church is one of the oldest churches in America dedicated to San Francisco de Asis. It is an outstanding example of adobe mission architecture. Constructed between 1813 & 1815. Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.

The clean lines and earthen materials make it a kindered spirit to modern architecture from the Sarasota School of Architecture. They both integrate the outdoor environment with the architecture using simple materials and clean lines in the design.

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Adobe Architecture

Adobe mission church San Francisco de Assis, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.

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Great Pyramid, Giza Egypt, Black and White Photograph
A visitor to the great pyramid at Giza in Egypt

The single person descending the Great Pyramid at Giza illustrates how large the pyramid is and how small in the scheme of life we are.

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The Great Pyramid of Giza Egypt

A person descending the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt.

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