Quote Originally Posted by Pere Casals View Post
Please, let me post The Pieta.
Very nice example, and to develop the point, one might compare this youthful work to his very different visualization of these same two people, in his Rondanini Pieta (below), from the last years of his life.

The two works are much like my separate LF visualizations of an eternal red oak I've been watching and shooting for decades, struggling to capture the purity I feel in each case, trying to express it differently each time, but always coming-up a bit short of the aspiration. They're impure.

Yet when I hear "purity," my first reaction remains water for darkroom chemicals and the mountain air before our seasonal fires arrive. Must be the materialist side of me.

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