Heroes Not Zombies

The photo on the left here is a full moon seen through a tree in winter. The one on the right is the reflection of the sky on water twenty metres down an old well in my garden.

I came across these photos side by side today and I think they work really well together. Both of these images are about reflected white light….the light of the Moon which is, of course, the light of the Sun reflected, and the light of day glistening on the surface of the water deep down in the well.

Both meld distances together, foreground, middle ground and background with both the near and the far. In so doing, along with the spherical shapes in each photo, it makes each photo very pleasingly holistic.

Maybe that’s why every time I look at these images I hear the words “as above, so below”.

Perhaps you’re familiar with that saying from old esoteric or alchemical writings, but it’s a phrase which speaks to me of the echoes, resonances and symmetries we find in the world, and which points to the essential truth of the inseparability of the invisible and the visible, of the mind and the body, of the subject and the object, of the immaterial and the material.

I think it’s time to start shifting our focus from parts to wholes, time to engage with people more than diseases, time to become aware of our interconnectedness and our interdependence.