The Stillness of Motion: Changing Polar Landscapes: Vancouver artist, Roberta Holden.

Starts: Thursday November 05, 2009 at 6:00pm
Ends: Wednesday November 25, 2009 at 5:00pm
Event Type: Other
Location: POST exhibit
Art Loop, Lower Level Art Central L5E, 100 - 7th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 CA
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Website: http://www.artcentral.ca/events/442-the-stillness-of-motion-changing-polar-landscapes
Industry: fine art
Keywords: Photography, Fine Art, Art Exhibition, Calgary, Art Central, Curators, Artist
Intended For: visual artists, photographer, curator
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POST Exhibit presents The Stillness of Motion: Changing Polar Landscapes: Photography exhibit by Vancouver artist, Roberta Holden provides a visual contemplation of the spatial-temporal concepts of motion and change as they act upon our polar spaces. The work examines both natural change, over time scales that range from the diurnal and seasonal to the geological, as well as the human-induced changes that threaten to disrupt the human and ecological balance of these regions and the larger planetary ecosystem. In line with contemplative traditions such as Zen Art or Miksang, Holden’s photographic practice emphasizes the experiential qualities of seeing as a path to awakening. From this philosophical perspective, there is no distinction between the photograph, the photographed and the photographer, no subject and object, no seer and seen, no barriers between mind and space. It is all experience. Once basic technical considerations are mastered, the camera is no more than an extension of the mind, a tool to focus one’s attention on space and time. These images are the manifestation of that focus.