'TREE OF KNOWLEDGE'

LIMITED EDITION FINE ART SILVER GELATIN PRINT

Available as a toned fine art silver gelatin print on double-weight warm tone fibre paper.

'Tree of knowledge' was part of a portfolio of ten images which earned the artist his second BW Spider Award in 2007.

"I had stepped into a lofty sepulchre of stone, a mausoleum of mediaeval memory, one of the stately desolations of Isaiah which served as proof of the failing frailty of humanity, and as a wrecking rebuke to perspiring ambition and pride. ... All was empty, dark, and still. Not a breath, not a footfall! Nothing to move the emotion, nothing to dispel the deadening dread of death, but all shrouded in shadow, grey as a forgotten grave, built up and barricaded above like a tomb, and all below, in the sombre seclusion of the aisles, the hard flags of unremembered burials, tablets to long-since nameless names, mural memorials to the well-noted unknowns of past time. Never have my thoughts been so reduced to the down-trodden dust of human destiny and of human despair as in the nave and in the aisles of Ely Church ... I am a poor pagan, but as I beheld the work of our own Alan of Walsingham I was prepared to believe in inspiration, to believe in a benevolent breathing from the beyond, and in courteous communications from some superior spirit who takes our favoured ones by the hand, and who leads them with a studied certainty of step to the sure summits of art." (Frank Binder 'A Journey in England')

The 'audio' link opens an .mp3 file in which the artist reiterates Lartigue's advice to aspiring young photographers.

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