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FATA MORGANA 913

I feel that I have “broken through” a metaphysical barrier in my longtime obsession of photographing charismatic noumena* in refracted color and light and am now somehow communing with those I have learned to recognize after a decade of “seeing” them, now revealing themselves to me as this project develops. They seem to be in another dimension looking out, which one can appreciate through their portraits, their consorts, menageries and the fantastical interplay of color, light and shadow in the magnificent designs that  emanate from their fusion.

These are straight photographs of images that did not exist except for the auspicious situation that generated their momentary illusions.  
They are simply photographs of pure color and light that thaumaturgically* arrange themselves into fascinating patterns 
and grand designs showcased it in what I refer to as a FATA MORGANA.

iThe word thaumaturge was first anglicized and used in the magical sense in John Dee's book
Mathematicall Praeface to Euclid's Elements (1570). He mentions an "art mathematical"
called "thaumaturgy... which giveth certain order to make strange works,
of the sense to be perceived and of men greatly to be wondered at."

*noumenon
noun, plural noumena 
 [noo-muh-nuh] 
1. the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content.


GO FULL SCREEN, ENLARGE IMAGES (COMMAND + ON A MAC) AND SCROLL SLOWLY.  IMAGERY CHANGES WITH DISTANCE AND THROUGH SQUINTED EYES..
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    • Burning Man 2017
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      • Jean-Michel Jarre in Houston
      • ILHUICATL 1011
      • 4JUL16 FIREWORKS
      • HOUSTON PRINTS
      • POLO MATCHES JUNTEENTH16
      • PASSING RAINSTORM
      • LIGHTNING STORM 27MAY16
      • HOUSTON LIGHTNING STORMS
      • 63 ZZZZZZZ
      • HOUSTON FLOODING
      • SUNRISES
      • SKIES
      • STORMS
      • SPLENDOROUS WATERS OF BUFFALO BAYOU
      • CABALLEROS MOSCAS
      • QUEMAZÓN
    • Austin
    • San Francisco >
      • de Young Museum Architecture
      • IMPRESSIONS of the SFMoMA
      • TO CHINATOWN
    • Enfrijoladas
  • MEXICAN ATLAS PORTFOLIO
  • GUIA de Fiestas Mexicanas 1993
  • OCTOBER THAUMATURGY I
  • 102920 THAUMATURGY sel
  • NOVIEMBRITOS SS
  • 121020 THAUMATURGY
  • 120920 THAUMATURGY
  • 121020 PORTRAITURE
  • THE ENLIGHTENING
  • 122320 POSADAS
  • 122420 THAUMATURGY
  • 122520 THAUMATURGY
  • BUE STAR EXHIBITION
  • SALE
  • 010221 THAUMATURGY