Forest*Light*Ecstasy Recap
On Friday night on the Summer Solstice (June 21, 2013) I was pleased to host the very talented band F&M at my studio courtyard for a concert in conjunction with a photography show entitled Forest*Light*Ecstasy. It was an evening of wine, cheese, music, art and mingling.
Thank Yous
Before anything else, I would like to offer thanks to several people for their help in making the evening happen:
Thank you all very much! I look forward to the next one.
Money Raised for Southern Alberta Flood Relief
With your help, through the sale of their CDs, F&M raised and donated over $300 to the Red Cross for the victims of the flooding in Southern Alberta. Want to help? You can still donate at http://www.redcross.ca/donate/donate-online/donate-to-the-alberta-floods.
About the Forest*Light*Ecstasy Collection
What moves you? What takes your breath away? What transcends the familiar radius of day to day life and connects you with the notion of timelessness and eternity?
We each have our answers to those questions. My answers are ones that I discovered in my early 20s in the peaks and hills and crags and lakes and forests of the Canadian Rockies.
I found in the natural world something that stands in stark contrast to the machinations of the built world — a sense of deep connection, temporal lastingness and, frequently, untainted emotion.
Forest*Light*Ecstasy completes a trio of photography shows which began with my Rock+Sky+Euphoria show in October 2010 and continued with the Waves~Flow~Elation show in September 2012. With all three shows my pieces are comments on the natural world’s ability to stir up and release emotion within us and on the relationship between the external and the internal worlds.
Where Rock+Sky+Euphoria focused on the panoramas of mountain environs and Waves~Flow~Elation centred on bodies of water in the landscape, Forest*Light*Ecstasy explores the fusion of light with the forest world and, again, the internal reactions that fusion prompts.
I hope you see something here that moves you, takes your breath away or is in even a small way transcendent.
These are the photographs that form the Forest*Light*Ecstasy collection. To purchase a piece contact me.
There Standing With Me
July 2010
Nootka Island, B.C., Canada
$325
18″ x 12″ (Print Area)
Forest Murmurs
July 2010
North Coast Trail, B.C., Canada
$325
18″ x 12″ (Print Area)
Black Renewal
January 2005
Haffner Creek, B.C., Canada
$325
18″ x 12″ (Print Area)
Forest Opening
June 2009
Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada
$325
18″ x 12″ (Print Area)
Dreamwalk
August 2008
North Coast Trail, B.C., Canada
$325
18″ x 12″ (Print Area)
Toe Tip Blue
August 2008
North Coast Trail, B.C., Canada
$325
18″ x 12″ (Print Area)
Skylines
July 2010
North Coast Trail, B.C., Canada
$325
18″ x 12″ (Print Area)
Morning Sun
August 2008
North Coast Trail, B.C., Canada
$325
18″ x 12″ (Print Area)
High Omen
August 2008
North Coast Trail, B.C., Canada
$325
18″ x 12″ (Print Area)
Louise De Novo
September 2003
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
$325
18″ x 12″ (Print Area)
Photos
Below is what the evening looked like. (Photos courtesy of Amanda of Lightside Photography.)
Guests checking out my pieces.
Waiting out a burst of rain prior to the concert.
And after the brief rain delay, F&M’s concert begins.
And post-concert mingling ensued.
Emotionless Portraits
The evening wound up with several guests posing for portraits for one of my projects called Emotionless Portraits. See below for a few of those portraits. For the rest, and for the answer to the question of why these people are trying to be emotionless, see http://www.leroyschulz.com/2014/projects/emotionless-portraits/.
Hope to see you at the next concert and photography show! Sign up for my mailing list at http://www.leroyschulz.com/2014/newsletter/ to be notified in advance.