by Kim Ort | Sep 1, 2015 | Adventures in Seeing, Books, Consolations, Contemplation
David Whyte, in his book Consolations, equates crisis to the “dark night of the soul.” This dark night could be more accurately described as the meeting of two immense storm fronts, the squally vulnerable edge between what overwhelms human beings from the...
by Kim Ort | Aug 20, 2015 | Abstraction, Contemplation, Photography, Visual Journalling
I’ve been doing a lot of cloud watching lately. They’re always there, and always moving and changing – important to remember. Alfred Stieglitz (1864 – 1946) was an American art promoter and husband to painter Georgia O’Keefe. He was also...
by Kim Ort | Jul 30, 2015 | Contemplation, Practices, Visual Journalling
Haiku is a form of poetry that originates from Japan. It usually consists of three lines, containing five, seven, and five syllables respectively. These three lines pare an experience down to its essence. There is no interpretation; you say what happened or what you...
