ARTIST STATEMENT\"WINTER" 2009 = ARTIST STATEMENT
“Winter” 2009 continues my photographic
journey of creating images relating to my personal connection to the sea. Having lived my life near the shores of the
east coast of the United States, the endlessly shifting moods of the sea have
proven irresistible to my camera’s lens.
The winter of 2009 proved to be cold and isolating, and the Rockaway Beach
shore in Queens, New York was softly gray, and compellingly
beautiful one Sunday morning, as yet another storm approached.
The air was freezing and eerily still as the
sun made one last attempt at warming the earth, before the swirling snow
covered sand and surf with a thick blanket of dense, white fog.
The photographer’s point of view can sharpen
the perception of a moment that is fleeting and transitory. Starting from what is complex, it is possible
to reach what is simple and timeless.
Sandra Gottlieb
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