| The spark for Casey Moore’s ongoing photographic series But For the Wisdom started in 2018, when he discovered a verge on the side of a road overflowing with wild flowers. A few days later he went back and shot his first meadow. Since then, Moore has set out to create a rush of images in the series now amounting to 100’s of compositions. But For the Wisdom fully immerses the viewer in an abundance of impossible detail. There is freedom in the process - Moore doesn’t see the final image until after it is captured. With these layered compositions there is a reverberation, an energy that is particular only to nature. They quite literally teem with life. |
From Blossoms
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches
From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.
O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.
There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
- Li Young Lee