Beat poet Gary Snyder talks about the Buddhist “experience” that cannot be fully expressed with words. He says:

“It’s an inner order of experience that is not available to language. Language has no words to talk about it. When you put it into words you lose it; so it’s better not to talk about it. . . . The true poem is walking that edge between what can be said and that which cannot be said. . . . Haiku has something of this quality. The haiku of Basho and his immediate disciples have the quality of the poem pushed as far as one can push it. ‘The words stop but the meaning goes on.’”

For me, the photography installations of Maria L. Felixmueller share similar aesthetics and goals. The photographs themselves are not necessarily remarkable (although each can captivate you and surprise you if given enough time). What is most powerful about Felixmueller’s work is the way in which she installs and displays the photographs that create juxtapositions to jar the viewer out of the everyday commonplace experience depicted in the photographs themselves . . .

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