nature

These images make lovely use of high-speed photography. An interview with the artist is available here. It’s a bit pretentious, but what do you expect when you’re being questioned by someone named ‘Rosecrans Baldwin’? I wonder if, like his namesake, he suffers from a feeling of marginalization and predetermined existence? He is the editor for an online arts magazine.

I remember on a long car ride with my dad, we got into a discussion about the nature of reality as pertains to time, in the form of someone taking a picture of an arrow flying. If you used a fast enough speed, the arrow would appear to be still. But then, how could it be representing reality, when the arrow was in motion? Is all time just a series of interconnected still moments, and the passage of time an illusion of human construct? How then to explain the difference between a photo of the arrow in flight and a photo of the arrow stuck in the target? Were the images interchangeable, merely states put into sequential order by our limited 3-dimensional perception? As I was eight at the time my arguments were weakened by sudden distraction at the sight of a field of cows.