We are back in our home in China. We have lived in the same 150 square metre apartment since our first year here in 2006-2007. Well, it is almost the same. The first two years we lived in an identical apartment across the hall on the same floor. As a result, it feels like home. Last year we had purchased paintings for the living room wall, as well as other Chinese hangings which decorate the rest of our split-level home….
I am in Brampton. I get to sleep downstairs in my son’s house, a space almost like a private suite. I have been bonding with my grandson who is almost two years old while his parents are at work during the day. There is nothing else on my agenda other than a planned visit with a Jungian psychiatrist friend who will be in Toronto in a few days. My son will be going with me for this visit. He has…
It’s been weeks since my last post here. A lot of that time was about being busy as we have travelled to the homes of our children and they have travelled to see us at our home as well since we will be returning to China before the end of the month. Before we fly off, we will visit our son and his family in Toronto. I am heading there in a week as I will be babysitting our little…
The SoFoBoMo [Solo Photo Book Month] book is finished. I had until July 30th to finish it, but it didn’t take me thirty days since the photos were easy to find and the topic of individuation is one that I know well because of my background in psychology. I didn’t take any photos of myself nude while working on the project. In fact, I avoided being nude as much as possible as I didn’t want to deal with nudity, and…
I am back. I wasn’t sure that I would be back, yet somehow the book project is keeping me above water. Like a few days ago, I got to take another trip into the countryside just so that I could be nude in the hills south of town. My wife is glad that I am taking some private time for myself rather than have me being frustrated at home. There is no secret that I spend my time naked in…
This is a surprise. I don’t remember having back-to-back posts before. This morning I wandered again down the railway track, and as the past few times, I did so while nude. I wait until the track has turned a bend and the house to the north of the tracks is hidden behind a copse of trees. There was something shifting within me once again, a glimpse of the shadow that I had thought I had buried for good the past…
I am back. Today’s image wasn’t taken by a railway track. I took this image early this afternoon. I went on a second outing to visit an abandoned farm yard about two kilometres from town as the crow flies. Though I didn’t realise it when I took this photo, it is about consciousness which is the whole objective of individuation. As I wrote early this morning for the book project: “Shadows serve as contrast to the glaring light of new…
We’ve been back in Canada for less than a month. This was our third full year at the university in Changzhou. I have to admit that keeping busy has helped me cope with the shadows that don’t quite go away. Now that I am back in Canada, I am taking advantage of the new timing for the thirty photos in thirty days for a complete book. The past years photo book challenges have been done while I was retired. This…
Dziblchaltun Mayan Ruins near Merida, Mexico Again, I return to the topic of transparency and authenticity, something I have talked about here before. I want to talk about “natural” man as distinguished from “civilized” man. This is a relatively old photo taken in March, 2009 while spending the winter in a Mayan fishing village. I chose this photo because it is “safe” and reader friendly. The image is symbolic to me of times long past that are more about young…
It’s the last day of March and we have only a few days left here in Costa Rica. We are talking about going back to China to teach as we both are having trouble filling in our hours and days. We won’t be making the decision until later this spring or early summer. I got this photo yesterday and as with some of my past images, I did some photo editing to make it softer and fuzzier. Despite that, my…