Water is the philosophical fire

Nicole Page-Smith, 2018

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

Leonardo da Vinci

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Maple leaves fall and fade

Nicole Page-Smith, 2018

MAPLE LEAVES

Maple leaves fall and fade

like old exposed negatives

and none is individual

and none recalls its image.

Maple leaf, what was it you took,

pointed, on fire, towards the light,

metered exactly? Was it

worth the memorial capture?

Here is an album of another year. 

None will remember them. Techniques alter.

A picnic, celebration, wedding, christening? Somehow

the light got in and spoiled the picture.

Janet Frame

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

Photographs by Nicole Page-Smith

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." Leonardo da Vinci

Family group and two lovers

Jeffrey Harris, Love's fire, 1978, Collection Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Jeffrey Harris, Family group and two lovers, 1970, Collection Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Jeffrey Harris, Self portrait 28th of April 1976, 1976, Collection Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Jeffrey Harris, The heart's key, 1978, Collection Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Jeffrey Harris, Problems of the 20th c.- mainly problems of drainage, 1974, Collection Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki 

Jeffrey Harris, 2017

"A family with bubblegum-pink skin and unsettling blue eyes gather together for a stiff family portrait." 

Jeffrey Harris, Family portrait and two lovers, 1970, being discussed in the recent publication - Ten x Ten: Art at Te Papa

Summer in the Sun

Nicole Page-Smith, 2017

Eternity

He who binds to himself a joy

Does the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity's sunrise.

William Blake

Summer in the Sun

Nicole Page-Smith, 2017

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." Galileo Galilei

Birds of land and air and sea

The photographs, "Birds of land and air and sea", 

by Nicole Page-Smith, 

were taken on a trip to the natural history museum.

"Before you the winds flee, and at your coming the clouds forsake the sky. For you the inventive earth flings up sweet flowers. For you the ocean levels laugh, the sky is calmed and glows with defused radiance." 

Lucretius