by Kim Ort | Aug 20, 2015 | Abstraction, Contemplation, Photography, Visual Journalling
I’ve been doing a lot of cloud watching lately. They’re always there, and always moving and changing – important to remember. Alfred Stieglitz (1864 – 1946) was an American art promoter and husband to painter Georgia O’Keefe. He was also...
by Kim Ort | Aug 6, 2015 | Acceptance, Books, Essence, Humility, Spirituality, Zen Buddhism
Wabi-sabi refers to an elusive and elegant beauty. Wabi suggests a beauty of elegant imperfection. Sabi means loneliness or rather aloneness. Together, they suggest the beauty of ‘the withered, weathered, tarnished, scarred, intimate, coarse, earthly,...
by Kim Ort | Jul 28, 2015 | Books, Consolations, Contemplation, Essence
Beauty is the harvest of presence. ~ David Whyte, Consolations I love David Whyte’s quote above – beauty as the harvest of presence. Since practicing contemplative photography, I’ve considerably expanded my definition of what is beautiful. When I...
