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New book released"Wild Harmonies" 96 pages, 12" X 12" hard cover monograph 50 black & white photographs $45.00 The soft folds of the dried amaryllis, the curves of the young sumac leaves, the minute detail seen in the bellflower seed baskets, and the angular form of the dogbane.… Wild Harmonies is my photographic celebration of nature’s botanical wonders enriched by the descriptive words of Henry D. Thoreau. My intent with these photographs is to demonstrate a wild nature, that life force that is beyond human influence - each plant’s unique shape and form - the flow of nature’s life blood in the veins of the leaves - the unique expression of a plant, such as the curl of the dried beech leaf. Gayle S Moore |
I am interested in each contemporary plant in my vicinity…. They are cohabitants with me of this part of the planet, and they bear familiar names. Yet how essentially wild they are! Henry D. Thoreau - "Journal", June 5, 1857 The images in Gayle Moore’s Wild Harmonies reveal a sensitivity that far exceeds the line and form displayed within these pages. Her eye is ever alert to Nature’s secrets as revealed in her choice of the accompanying Thoreau quotes. Her work, unpretentious, brings us to pause and carefully explore the rich simplicity of her emphasis on shape, texture, and line displayed in these photographs. The subtle curl of a single beech leaf best illustrates the mystique of Gayle’s vision. Magically floating on the page, the leaf displays the profound beauty and power of Nature’s creative hand. And in Gayle’s photograph the leaf lives on as if challenging us to open our lives to the infinite wonders of that same natural world. Thomas A. Potter, Naturalist, Photographer, President of the Thoreau Society Simple, elegant, ethereal, quintessential. Sometimes sensuous, always beautifully crafted and presented without pretense, her style is a Japanese haiku in visual form. These are the sophistication of line and grace, the most delicate grays, classical and elegant. They are a sensuous ballet of tonalities, employing form instead of movement. Don’t look at this work and put it away. Come back to it after a day and a week and a month. It grows more complex each time, and reveals more to you as you explore these forms suspended in time and space. Paul R. Paletti, Jr., Attorney, photographer, collector, Paul Paletti Gallery, Louisville, KY |
