So do I, Tom.
4-11:
Jerome,
None of your images to date have been snapshots. Each seems carefully framed and made and each represents some facet of your library of values and questions.
Yes, this is just a photograph, but it's really a special one. It's magnetic, we're drawn in to this unique landscape. Who'd take a picture of a field with no sky? What's significant here are the remnants of the crops, after the harvest, with plough furrows converging to the distance. The composition triggers the principal metaphor of life itself: life as a journey.
Paths always catch our attention, and receding lines like this, railway tracks, the sides of country fences, pull us in to consider our life and destiny. This, with the patch of common grass growing through its highly selected relatives, contrasts wide branches of our evolutionary history too and also serves to ponder living versus dead.
A picture like this, then, becomes a kind of muse system. We can explore our own thoughts with it and exercise our imagination, hopes, dreams regrets and even vows to change things. So the work is not merely art in itself, but a long term companion for reflection.
Great job for one days work!
Asher