Curator’s Corner

 

 

I offer three of my own images as a reflection on the themes of Ubuntu. Exiled is a depiction of our organic connection to the earth and the anxiety that inevitably ensues when we begin to lose that sense of oneness. Promised Land addresses the defensiveness that so often arises when we are forcibly imprisoned by factors beyond our control; able to see or imagine what could be but trapped by the narrow constraints of circumstance or the brutality of domination.  And, finally, in Feed My Sheep we see an enormous crowd of individuals who might either be able to feed or need to be fed, but who are instead milling around, directionless and self-absorbed, while cries for help go unanswered and the sun slowly parches the land.

About Diane Walker

Diane is a retired marketing executive who has been a professional photographer since 1992 (shooting digitally since 2004).

She has spent the best part of her adult life on islands in the Pacific Northwest, and delights in the play of light and shadow, the natural world, reflections and fog, farms, old boats, and the art of portraiture.

Though she started out as a news photographer, Diane began doing gallery-quality art photography while living in the San Juan Islands.

Around the time she switched to the digital camera, she came to realize there was a strong spiritual dimension to her work, and in 2005 she began developing the photographic meditations that now appear in her traveling exhibit,  A Contemplative Photographer¹s Alphabet.  That exhibit, which has been on display in the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan and the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, is now available in book form from Blurb.com.

Diane’s photographs and meditations reflect her years of study with Cynthia Bourgeault and emerge out of her daily practice of Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina. She is presently developing two additional books — a series of photographic meditations on the Gospel of Thomas and a set of photographic meditations for Advent.

She continues a daily practice of photographic meditation at her contemplative photography and contemplative poetry blogs.

She is a regular contributor to the ECVA Image & Spirit blog.  Her work has been published in numerous newspapers and journals, and her photographs are available in local galleries on Bainbridge Island, off the coast of Seattle.