Separation Point Jason Russell Poole - Photography | Benjie Howard - Words and Music
This publication is an extended and updated version of Nature’s Laguna Wilderness title first published in 2003. This book is an activist document. The accomplished photography of a sumptuous landscape may obscure the fact that The Laguna Wilderness consists of equal parts of the three most powerful currents of nature photography over the past half century—art, political advocacy, and love of nature. Ron Chilcote deploys beauty as a political weapon.
READING THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF NATURE
by Godfrey Reggio – director of Koyaanisqatsi
We see the world through language, but our language may no longer describe our world. Over a ten-year period, Jason Russell Poole and Benjie Howard left one world to try to see another. They breached a separation point and used the edges of our world to frame a wilderness beyond. They began to read the hieroglyphics of nature. Their search for literacy is not unlike how humans first learned to read, long before pictographs and alphabets, through metaphors of earth, air, water, and fire. It is into this elemental place that Poole and Howard have submerged, entering the wilderness where language was born.
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