Category: Insights

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 19, 20157:25 pm

Photo Essay: Sanding ~ Continents

Concepts flow in my mind
Like continents
Ideas emerge from oceans of possibility
Sink into them, and become lost
They collide, synthesizing one from two
Divide, calving two from one

Abstract by Patrick JenningsMay 30, 20155:49 pm

The Last American Vagabond

Living in the moment means, ultimately, coming to the understanding that life means never arriving anywhere, that you are always on the way to something else, somewhere else, and the time for living is right here, right now, while you’re on the way there.

Ricoh RF 500 by Patrick JenningsMay 26, 20157:00 am

Give me shelter

Roofs. Shelter and safety.

First, a tangent.

Chinese characters are beautiful things. The more interesting ones often contain characters within characters, known as ‘radicals’. So any character containing the character for water is inflected with the sense of liquid, and any character containing the roof radical is inflected with the sense of shelter/safety, or lack of it.

Landscape by Patrick JenningsMay 22, 20157:00 am

Missed opportunity?

On first glance, you may think the title is about a derelict gas station on some forlorn stretch of lonely desert highway.

You’d be wrong.

It’s about a photographer realising the shot he’ll never have another opportunity to shoot could have been so much better.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 21, 20157:00 am

Faint Hope

Faint hope

Like the sun, shrouded
Seeking the balcony

Like the little Buddha
An outline in the shadows

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 20, 20155:28 pm

You and the Wall were never Friends

Some days
No matter how beautiful it seems
From the perspective you’re viewing
Or how comfortable you feel
Right where you’re standing

Ya just gotta stop
Take stock
And realise

You’ve hit a wall

Detail by Patrick JenningsMay 18, 20157:00 am

Risk it

When we talk about our lives, it’s not the stories about the safe paths we have taken which become our favourite stories to tell. Risky choices make the best tales, no matter the difficulties, no matter the outcomes.

Olympus OM-2 by Patrick JenningsApr 29, 20157:00 am

Love is easier

I am as baffled by our ability to love as our ability to hate, and especially baffled by people who seem to love hating. How is that possible?

I no longer have the energy for hate. It brings me no pleasure, no relief, only tension, pain, anger.

Abstract by Patrick JenningsApr 20, 20157:00 am

Deliriously Happy

Yep, that’s a deliriously happy face graffiti’d onto the side of a dumpster.

Now, you can call that irony, or juxtaposition, and maybe the person who painted it there was thinking that way too.

But…

Abstract by Patrick JenningsApr 17, 20157:46 am

Post no ills

It wasn’t a completely conscious process, but the world and everything in it has grown increasingly beautiful since April Fool’s Day, 1994 — the last day of my Microsoft tenure and the first day of… I’m still not sure what. Amazing what happens when you stop seeking the ugliness, stop cleverly attacking it and the people it attracts, stop praising yourself for your cleverness.