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Despite the Pain - A 5 year collection
Laria Saunders

Despite the Pain - A 5 year collection

When the camera moves, the world becomes a large palette of infinite colors, line and geometry. These snapshots are likened to swabs or sketches of earth components; it’s textures, color, patterns, movement and finally it’s creations. Five years, five collections to form one snapshot. Here you will find a small sampling of the entire collection. After years of isolation due to crippling physical pain I emerged from a dark cave and witnessed a world throbbing with light and color. I could no longer do normal photography. I felt like I had just awakened from a cocoon and had a second chance at life. This collection reflects a transformation beyond the pain; a time in my life that I desperately needed an altered awareness in order to survive the daily battle of chronic illness. The goal of the collections from 2010-2014 attempts to achieve this transformation by reflecting the microcosm and macrocosm. The journey does this by mirroring and taking inspiration from two paths. The first path being that of the Monarch butterfly from cocooned (New Papillon Series) migration (Migration Series), mating (Union Series), conception (Conception Series) and offspring (Creation Series). Mirroring my own life from isolation to emergence then from travel (terrain-see subgroups below) and finally to love. The second inspiration mirrors the evolution of the universe from it’s seed state of repose to the early chaos and finally to the life-forming creations. Both paths declare the successful story of creation despite the intensity of the journey. The final series leaves abstraction and enters our world of creation to show the offspring phase in the evolution of the Monarch and the universe. This series uses a single image from a mountain, a patch of dirt or small section of a muddy stream and with a stitching technique, duplicates it. Five years, five collections to form one snapshot.

Photos
28
Status
Public
Created
Dec 17, 2014
Updated
Feb 09, 2022
Categories
Abstract/Experimental
Tags
#Abstract Art #Abstract Photography #Abstract Photos #Blur #Collection #Long Exposure #Moving Camera #Series

Photos (28)

Title: New Papillon - From The New Papillon 2010 Series (1st of 5 year collections) and in the first subgroup called, Cocooned.
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Title: Matrix Mind - From The New Papillon 2010 Series (1st of 5 year collections) and in the second subgroup called, Cocooned.
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Title: Life Awake - From The New Papillon 2010 Series (1st of 5 year collections) and in the second subgroup called, Emergence.
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Title: Rods - From New Papillon Series 2010 Series (1st of 5 year collections) and in the 2nd subgroup Emergence.
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Title: Floating - From The New Papillon 2010 Series (1st of 5 year collections) and in the second subgroup called, Culmination.
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Title: City Lights - From The New Papillon 2010 Series (1st of 5 year collections) and in the second subgroup called, Culmination.
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Title: Stirrings - From The Migration 2011 Series (2nd of 5 year collections) and in the first subgroup called, Stirrings.
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Title: Windy Maginations - From The Migration 2011 Series (2nd of 5 year collections) and in the first subgroup called, Stirrings.
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Title: Post-Modern Waltz - From The Migration 2011 Series (2nd of 5 year collections) and in the second subgroup called, Evolution.
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Title: Formless into Form - From The Migration 2011 Series (2nd of 5 year collections) and in the first subgroup called, Evolution.
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Title: Soleil Giving - From The Migration 2011 Series (2nd of 5 year collections) and in the last subgroup called, Terrain
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Title: Two Tracks - From The Migration 2011 Series (2nd of 5 year collections) and in the last subgroup called, Terrain.
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Title: Still Toward - From The Union 2012 Series (3rd of 5 year collections) and in the first subgroup called, Co-Creation.
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Title: Winged Unions - From The Union 2012 Series (3rd of 5 year collections) and in the first subgroup called, Co-Creation.
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Title: Forged Life - From The Union 2012 Series (3rd of 5 year collections) and in the second subgroup called, Forging.
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Title: Interevolution - From The Union 2012 Series (3rd of 5 year collections) and in the first subgroup called, Forging.
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Title: Emergent - From The Union 2012 Series (3rd of 5 year collections) and in the third subgroup called, Emergent.
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Title: Vision Logic - From The Union 2012 Series (3rd of 5 year collections) and in the third subgroup called, Emergent.
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Title: Circulendity - From The Conception 2013 Series (4th of 5 year collections) and in the first subgroup called, Conception.
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Title: Paralleliquity - From The Conception 2013 Series (4th of 5 year collections) and in the second subgroup called, Incubation.
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Title: Incubator - From The Conception 2013 Series (4th of 5 year collections) and in the second subgroup called, Incubation.
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Title: Preciousity - From The Conception 2013 Series (4th of 5 year collections) and in the last subgroup called, Creation
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Title: Muddy Stream 6 - From The Creation 2014 Series (5th of 5 year collections) and in the first subgroup called, Muddy Stream.
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Title: Muddy Stream 2 - From The Creation 2014 Series (5th of 5 year collections) and in the third subgroup called, Muddy Stream.
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Title: Trees, Dirt 1 - From The Creation 2014 Series (5th of 5 year collections) and in the third subgroup called, Trees, Dirt.
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Title: Trees, Dirt 5 - From The Creation 2014 Series (5th of 5 year collections) and in the third subgroup called, Trees, Dirt.
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Title: Water 3 - From The Creation 2014 Series (5th of 5 year collections) and in the third subgroup called, Water.
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Title: Mountains, Bushes 2 - From The Creation 2014 Series (5th of 5 year collections) and in the third subgroup called, Mountain, Bushes.
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