{"pagetitle":"Ineffable - Patrick Turner photographer/artist","content":"Ineffable
\n03/05/2014\n![\"Botanical\"](\"https://images.fluidfolio.com/51/page/133-bot_sm.jpg\")
\r\n\tI often find myself asking this simple question - why do you do this? What compels you to look closely at life around you and want to capture a small piece of it in a way that is meaningful for you? After all this time, I'm still not sure exactly why, but I do know that there are visual elements \r\n\tout there that if listened to, can create a sympathetic resonance inside. I don't think it's necessary that we know exactly what is resonating within us; only that we are and that we appreciate that we are. It's a way of connecting to something ineffable. I know for myself that there's often a kind of transformation that occurs when I really look at something. At first I simply see the scene or thing as it is; a tree, the balance and proportion of a beautifully designed piece of architecture, a rock, a stream, but soon, if I'm patient, it takes on a whole other dimension and becomes something wonderful. There is something so ............ right about it.
\r\n\tTo borrow from a piece of Taoist philosophy;
\r\n\tSomething mysteriously formed
\r\n\tBorn before heaven and earth,
\r\n\tIn the silence and the void,
\r\n\tStanding alone and unchanging,
\r\n\tEver present and in motion,
\r\n\tPerhaps it is the mother of ten thousand things,
\r\n\tI do not know its name,
\r\n\tCall it Tao,
\r\n\tFor lack of a better word, I call it great.
\r\n\tIt is great, isn't it? Keep it simple, practice patience, and compassion.
\r\n\tPatrick
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