Shattered Cupola

by Gregory Scott

Title

Shattered Cupola

Artist

Gregory Scott

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Photograph - Photograph

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This is the photograph of the underside of the Cupola atop the Cape Henry Lighthouse, in Virginai. This is an experimental image. I didn't have a tripod with me, and I didn't have a wide enough angle lens to capture the entire shot, so I took sectional photographs of the whole thing. However, I moved the camera too much between shots, so the photomerge software I use couldn't match the shots, and when I tried to minimize the discontinuities, I was unable to produce a seamless result. So, as a former programmer, it was quite natural to declare a bug an unplanned feature, and make discontinuity a theme of the photo. I added the disjointed outer window panes, and used some colorful effects to make them look shattered and crystaline. I strengthened the lovely colors of the iron rust and coper verdigris, and merely changed my mental attitude, to celebrate the gaps, the voids, the broken lines, the decay, the aging, and all the defects and patina that comes with aging. Just as the wrinkles of an old person can reveal wisdom, experience, persistance, and patience, the "negative" attributes of this image are, in some ways, to be seen as a positive light. They represent trials, patience, failure that may precede success, durability, and paradoxically, the union of disparate elements. Because I say they do!

This image is also a sermon, perhaps. The lighthouse is Jesus. In another photo of the Cape Henry Lighthouse, you see the entrance, and steps leading into the entrance. The steps and door are an invitation. Jesus provides the work and the entry. In a slight reversal of the standing at the door and knocking metaphor, the door is already open. If you accept the invitation, you enter into Him, his character, and his strength, and permanence. Having done so, you may look at your life, and just see the seams not yet joined, and the dissonance, as your life is not yet just like Jesus. But you already are in him. What you see is temporal, and not part of the eternal reality. O

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November 13th, 2013

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