“Within repetition of quite ordinary things in the everyday, there is infinite variation. Go for a walk, and pick up a rock. Pick up another one, just nearby. Compare them. Both are composed of coarsely grained granite. both are roughly the same size. Look closer. This one has orange and bright green lichen; that one has soft, damp moss. This one – here a bump, there a hollow. This one has a small crystal of white quartz embedded … and so on. Each rock has a myriad of subtle differences, available to those who bother to take closer look.”  – Julie Gibbons, 2001.

 

Here is the first in a series of photographic essays from contributing artists. Each of these photographers has paused for a brief moment to take a closer look, and has seen something extraordinary.

 

The first is Kathy Fernandez. I hope you enjoy her vision as much as I do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy Fernandez has always been drawn to the captured image.  She was completely awestruck on viewing the rich denseness and light of Velazquez‘ painting Las Meninas at its home in the Museo del Prado in Spain, and is equally captivated by the majesty of Nick Brandt’s wildlife photography.

Kathy is a psychologist by trade, and lives near Kincumba Mountain on the Central Coast of NSW, where these photographs were taken. You can find more of Kathy’s work on her website here, and on her blog here.