Morning Prayer - SOLD
Photograph on fine art velvet paper
16 x 24”
350.

About Morning Prayer

The way I understand the concept of transcendence is that there is something more than what is easily discernible to our everyday existence. This doesn’t mean that all the concrete, tangible things that make up our daily lives are unimportant. It just means they’re not all that’s there. So much more is out there for all of us. Greater meaning and purpose are always present before us, even when we are too busy or too focused on the immediate to be present to it. Transcendence is about sight lines and those moments in life when something more breaks through into our consciousness. 

I chose the photograph “Morning Prayer” because the elements in the foreground are in focus, but as the early morning mist on Lake Oolenoy clears, there is a hint of the “something more” that is the landscape of mountains at sunrise—which completes the overall landscape scene. I believe this scene reflects all the elements that transcendence helps us pay attention to in our daily lives. There are beautiful, important things immediately in front of us. They deserve our attention. There are things that are still mysterious to us like the movement of clouds dancing on water. There are also big, bold, and beautiful things waiting for us in the distance, which we have hints of in moments of spiritual clarity. All of these elements are vital in their own ways. All of them call us to pay attention to those times and places that help us to transcend the limitations of our present sight lines. All of them call us to be hopeful for new adventures on the horizon.