http://www.aspenmays.com/larry/I'm very attracted to photography as a medium for implicating the infinite.
take a vertical photo of the sky perpendicular to the earth. The infinite depicted through a finite point. (cross diagram: horizontal is the physical, vertical is metaphysical- only by nature of infinite). Then displaying the photograph on a vertical wall, desublimates (definition) the image back onto a horizontal plane...and becomes a metaphor for our perception of the infinite. Not only is it an illustration of our perception, but pinpoints a fundamental barrier in our relationship to God. This barrier keeps us from ever accessing the infinite (God), however does not prohibit the infinite from making contact with the finite (man). (this could be a place to talk more about the Holy Spirit, or even the idea of the temple, where God used to be housed in the Holy of Holies).
What makes this photo project even more interesting is in our own perception, we as viewers view these photographs as if we were in a horizontal position. So in a sense, we place ourselves within a reified dimension in order to view these photographs more perfectly (so we think).
A cunning encounter with the what was once infinite, proved finite through our fallen nature- desublimation.
You cannot force God into what He is not.
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