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    These Lumia images are pure abstraction made of sunlight that is bent, twisted, and made playful. There are no solid objects, or objects of any kind in these images. Each slide was made using a hand-held Nikon 35 mm camera.

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    Industrial Artifacts are part of a continuing photographic series. I use materials like these in making Assemblage sculpture.

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November 23, 2007

Time Is Our Event Horizon

We stand at the edge of time, onlookers and participants in a swirling cosmos that we have neither understood or imagined. It is our illusion that we look ahead at tomorrow or next year. This moment is our event horizon. We cannot see beyond it. We cannot anticipate if our passage in this solar system will either continue or end. We do not know if what we view is a beginning or an ending. Because all moments mark the end of now, all moments are finite singular end points. Restricted to such a foreshortened view, what business do we have causing destruction? All we can achieve in this mode is to restrict and narrow the course of the future, essentially contributing only to entropy, not to life.

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