Resplendence

RESPLENDENCE, 2012- 2023, film photography. The images invite the viewer into meditative contemplation on the relationships between place and motivation. Amongst the etheric, material, and afferent impressions the landforms invite transcending into realms within. The dramatic landscapes convey a reverent sense of quiet tension between magnanimous notions of nature and the role of individual human lives. The existentialist vision of nuance weaves emotion and cognition through the performative apparatus of photography. Focusing congruent fields and reflexively impressing their forms through sight into the human body, the exposures lend themselves to questions on life, particularly the roles time and light have in generating Place. Questions of subjectivity looks into the formation of latent images. Rarely, if ever, a 1:1 relation, the memories and codes within the viewer are woven with the perceptions of Resplendence. Where and how does the land out-there form the inner landscapes to dominate or acquiesce? Considering layers of densities in perception, the images paid sensitivity to ways those spaces and forms are accessible or subliminally shielded, psychologically coded, and culturally deemed real and verifiable. While the north shore of Chicago, California, and primarily Norway, including Østlandet, Trøndelag, and Nordland are represented, instead of actual geographic locations, Resplendence focuses on contributing to opening up and inviting viewers into the field of imagination in a time where such places may seem forbidden. A book dummy was made in 2023 alongside Albumen Gallery’s exhibition. The spreads are designed to flow, creating a sense of subtle movement within the reader. Saal Digital printed the first book with an acrylic cover and leather like binding. Request a special edition or inquire about publishing at: [email protected] Further background: Remembering invites pause to consider where beliefs around the way nature is or works, can reveal a logic proported as one thing, performing as an entirely different function. The foundational motives in authoritarian psyches are based more in vision of nature instead of nature itself. The nature has often been coopted as an alibi for human behavior, and continues to be our field of dreams, projections, martyr, savior, triangulated reason for accepting or rejecting social narratives. As one of several examples, follied beliefs drove forced labor at Vemork Kraftverk during WWII. Workers resisted orders and broke small parts of the heavy water production. Due to resistance, the advancement of nuclear technology was thwarted under the hate and dominating motivations of the reich. Later on, heavy water is not needed to procure nuclear chain reactions to generate energy. The heavy water manufactured under Hitler's regime was sunk to the bottom of the nearby body of water in Vemork. Insofar as we know about the states of water, there are several forms producing subtle variations in our ability to perceive through sense and what makes sense. And in that sense, of the way things go, resistance aligns with an ode to the season often most feared or misunderstood. All that falls becomes transmuted through the earth under the weight of Winter. The Resplendence series was formerly several different collections Vereri, Heavy Water, and Landscape Psychologies. Throughout the evolution of the project created through intuitive and existential processes, was later found to have congruent motivations. Vereri, to have respect for, can also be found out through conflict, such as in the etymological roots of wær, or war. In a prayer for truth, may all that is revealed in these images living with and through them today, be proof the truth is remembered and found in love. RESPLENDENCE POEM a placide horizon feigns a twilight promising entryway toward oblivion enumerating plurality as everyone a toy mountain within sight precipatory shores impose upon a horizon hidden behind spines of mountains hawthorned by meteorological phenomenon a yolked encourvature reaching to kiss the moss lake enclosure spatters a light upon a placide reservoir with stillness emphatically elusive metallic refraction evocative respite pool of heavens graces barrens of resplendence magenta hues are foretold to be silvery kisses of hope in a fog laden landscape penetrated by a few golden slices feeding forest paths underfoot begging my bones a curvature to rest upon a geologically stabilising curvature kissed by long afternoons’ horizon placated by the winds’ dappled whimsy through a darkened underbrush a cloudscape beckons my footsteps towards a solace of promise and barren mirroring a longing nearly here emptied vessel in wait pinnacle in demand the rivers go rushing toward a meadow blossoming and skies threatening only an equalising, ever lapping horizon. -RW, March 2023, Paris, France Photography, 2014-2021, Norway, Copyright Rachel Wolfe, All Rights Reserved. Prints and exhibition on view at Albumen Gallery un horizon placide feint un crépuscule porte d'entrée prometteuse vers l'oubli énumérant la pluralité comme tout le monde une montagne de jouets à portée de vue les rivages précipitants imposent à un horizon caché derrière les épines de montagnes aubépines phénomène météorologique une courbure jaune atteignant pour embrasser l'enceinte du lac de mousse projette une lumière sur un réservoir placide avec une immobilité emphatiquement insaisissable réfraction métallique évocatrice piscine de répit des cieux grâces landes de splendeur les teintes magenta sont prédites baisers argentés d'espoir dans un paysage chargé de brouillard pénétré de quelques tranches dorées alimentation des sentiers forestiers sous les pieds implorant mes os une courbure sur laquelle reposer une courbure géologiquement stabilisatrice embrassée par l'horizon des longs après-midi apaisé par la fantaisie tachetée des vents à travers un sous-bois sombre un paysage nuageux fait signe à mes pas vers un réconfort de promesse et miroir stérile un désir presque ici navire vidé en attente sommet de la demande les rivières se précipitent vers une prairie en fleurs et le ciel menaçant seulement un horizon d'égalisation, toujours clapotis -RW, mars 2023, Paris, France This is a public episode. 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