The Movement Series
It seems like this series will not end. It is a movement, a journey, energetic, and kinetic. Maybe it is also a delusion. Maybe I am deluding myself in thinking that there is worth in photographing dead tree stumps, dead timbre. Or maybe I am deluding myself in finding aesthetic pleasure in looking at them. All I know though is that I cannot walk past this timber or drift wood without bending down to take photographs of them.
If you have been here before, you know the general format. If not, please see the above links to the previous posts in the series. Please enjoy the photographs of dead timber/drift wood below and then below that the general philosophical musings to follow. I hope you enjoy this instalment in this ongoing series.
Movement: Part VIII
Movement: Philosophical Musings
Kinētikos. Of movement. Kinetic energy. Kinein. To move. We are compelled to move, to journey, to not be stagnant. Humans cannot settle down. Yes, we build a home to settle down, but we constantly move. We go to the shops, we go to the movies, we go to the coffee shop to buy coffee. We are compelled to move.
Our lives are journeys, one long movement, until we cease to exist. But then we still move. We move from one element to the next, from one stage to the next. Our bodies decay, we return to nature. Nature carries on the seemingly infinite movement. The journey of life. The dead timber does the same. It decays and feeds the ground so that the new can grow to repeat the cycle, to repeat the journey. The same journey, yet, different. Never the same, never a repeat, yet, it is the same.
A perpetual journey. We walk among the old, we walk among a self-enclosed system in which everything is everything. We cannot create energy, we cannot destroy it. Movement is inherently part of the system. Everything tends towards chaos and order, yet in the middle between the two we find movement. We are inherently chaotic order, ordered chaos. Our movements tend to be categorized in recognizable elements, but this is an illusion. Stand in front of the mirror and move, but try not the categorize it. Let your mind free.
The dead timber symbolizes movement. Yet, it is motionless. It does not move. Metaphorically, there is infinite movement. From life to death. From death to decay. From decay to new growth. From motionless to movement. From not-seen to being seen. To being interpreted. I see movement in the dead timber and I see stories. If you look long enough, you will recognise so many stories.
Postscriptum
All of the photographs are my own, taken with my Nikon D300 and Old Nikon NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8 AI Lens. The musings are also my own. Movement is inherent in everything. Everything moves. I hope your movement is well. Stay safe, and happy photographing.
Stunning captures, somehow I see a drawing in there 😉😊
Thank you so much for sharing.
Have a wonderful evening and enjoy your Wednesday!
Yes! I always see so many things in them. Sometimes I worry that I see things but then I remember I am sober.
Wow… autocorrect messed that up a bit. Sorry about that. I wrote dragon 😎🤣 I have my keyboard set to 4 languages… but somehow I corrupted them and I can type in each one a different language. Sometimes I don’t even realise I am in the wrong one.
It’s cool when one sees behind what you see. That’s the creative brain speaking…
I see things all the time. Especially in textures or clouds or trees even shadows 😎
Oh you can speak four languages? That is so cool! I can only do two. No worries, I think in the context of the post it made a lot of sense!
Yep… due to many country moves during my whole life actually.
Thanks 😎
It luckily did, and autocorrect didn’t change it into something weird hahaha 🤣!LOL
As that does happen sometimes and can cause some hilarious conversations after 🤓
Have an awesome day and enjoy your weekend @fermentedphil 👋🏻
Thats also fun though! But it can get pretty cool too. I love to explore deeper meanings between different languages that you can exploit only by understanding both languages. Have a splendid weekend!
It is hahaha 🤣
Yes, I know what you mean… in certain countries/ languages, you do need to understand all. To find the deeper meanings, the jokes and the little things you don’t pick up when you only have a basic level.
It changes everything once you reach that level of knowing and understanding of a level.
Thanks a lot 😊👋🏻 Have a great weekend too. Enjoy it…
The focus on the wood and the moving backgrounds work so good together! It is as if you add your own shape to the wood by highlighting only parts of it.. oh and this thin blue thread in one of the photos is almost my favourite detail:)
Oh wow, thank you so much for your kind words. I really appreciate it. Yeah, these dead wood and timber have me addicted! And it all started with pure luck. Since then, I have constructed so many surreal narratives in my mind.
...on my way to catch up with your posts:)
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