The stillness of a photograph always implies motion. Painting is necessarily a record of moments, a summary of the sitter's imposed stillness. It contains as much of yesterday as of today and will pick up tomorrow where it left off as if nothing had intervened. But a photograph is a single and singular moment snatched out of a continuum. You can snap a series of moments to recreate motion, like Muybridge's galloping horse (motion simulated through stop-motion reveals what the human eye cannot see, the horse momentarily in flight). Or, quickly, even before it is seen
the moment's
heliotropic
pivot
toward the camera's
snap
back forward
beside itself
radiant with possibilities
Photo by Jennifer Kapala
Radiant With Possibility - photo by Willy Wilson
in constant motion - photo by Barb Toyama