 Please visit my companion website: www.halibutpointstatepark.org When in Rockport, please visit the Seaward Inn (www.seawardinn.com), great accommodations, great food and a great display of my work. |
My first view of Rockport was over 30 years ago, sitting in a car at Land's End overlooking Cape Hedge Beach. I was raised in New Hampshire, with but an occasional summer visit to Hampton Beach; that moment at Land's End -the pull of the tide over the pebbles of Cape Hedge sounded otherworldly. But what began as otherworldly became the foundation for my life as I and my first wife in fact shortly moved to Cape Hedge. Both my children took their first steps on Cape Hedge sand. …years passed, I would return to Cape Hedge to practice juggling; in 1994 on a late fall day beneath a Cape Ann sunset, I met the love of my life and have lived in Rockport & Lanesville with her for the past 7 years.
I focus on the rock formations, the trees, the shorelines, and most often, the quarries of Rockport & Cape Ann. Much of Rockport's history and attraction is found in how it reflects the 'Cape Ann Light' - the gleam upon theAtlantic's water & shoreline, a reflection which makes artist, native or visitor sit up straight and take note that this is a special moment under special light. What do I do? Not very much in the manner of arrangement or planning, rather making myself available to… Transcripts of conversations… not 'taking' photographs. But rather repeated treks back to vistas, to watch and to wait as surfaces warm & cool to the light. Much as sitting by an elderly person who warms to the conversation & proffers wisdom in a seemingly casual fashion. After a time that is. And so these are photgraphs after a time. We would like to think ourselves permanent and immense. Trees, granite, the seashore & light have a lot to say about that.. |
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