ENTRY DESCRIPTION
A lot of my field work is up in the grassland zones near my home. I love shooting aspen trees there and one day I was struck by the side lighting on a copse of aspen trees yet not far into the stand, the light had not penetrated. The contrast between light and dark struck me as a metaphor for transformation - for the personal decision to start letting light into one's "darker" life and let a changing process begin. The term "bardo" is a complex Buddhist term generally describing a state of existence between two different worlds or paradigms and suggests a migration from one to another. Technically, I decided that intentional movement of the camera might accentuate the notion I was trying to achieve.

AUTHOR
Darrel Giesbrecht is an amateur photographic artist living in Lake Country, British Columbia. He sees all of life as sacred, as inter-connected - as Creation. His artistic vision and creative process attempts to gratefully celebrate all of life and nature as meaningful, wonder-ful, and significant, whether it is grand and flamboyant or whether it is plain and simple, whether it is noticed by the many or whether it is not noticed at all. His goal is to, in some way, direct the observer beyond the medium back into the heart and mind where different ways of seeing and understanding are processed. Artistic expression must touch the human spirit in journey, perhaps change the human spirit, must raise awareness of things that matter, or it remains as an unsprouted seed in the ground, as purely aesthetical rather than aesthetically pure.

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