Chora

These pictures all started from my photos; taken with a video camer i believed would give me excellent pictures.

Unfortunately I was wrong but they did give me an opportunity to soar with imagination and I think that is near the core of chora.

these ferns or one portion of them will be featured later in this series. 

Sea weed photoshopped using the natural sheen to generate colors

This is fungus on a tree which i intensified the colors on.

Here I turned the photo of Vashon Island at the mouth of Colvos Passage into a pencil drawing.

Just the bark on atree that caught a spot of sunlight filtering through the trees at  sunset  to give it an eerie mask like presence.

This started as an ordinary sword fern, But my limitation of camera prompted me to transform it which I  think is a major aspect of chora; an enveloping trance or ZEN state that takes you beyond the ordinary.

Here is one of my water reflections that reflect the landscape while at te smae time creating it.

When it comes to defining chora the notion of feeding the spirit or spiritual nourishment keeps cropping up. While when I took this picture I was only thinking of my love of (this) place  the dual meaning is very intense in my memories.

. The over exposure of the leaves creates negative impressions of the leaves while the spaces between the leaves are creating shapes like oak leaves.

This so looked to me like a monster eating rocks and this sort of 'flight of fancy' is exactly what keeps bringing me back to The Park and why my experiences are always so recuperating in effect. 

The ferry landing as well has provided many hours of dreaming for me over the years. The potential of being able to go as well as the hypnotizing regularity of it's engines, Waves and crossing routines.

The beautiful whiteness and the shadows, I can never see how everyone does not admire all of the life found at The Park. 

Here is another mask of the wild.

This simple curve, these old, old wind battered trees, can anyone be here and not have a spiritual experience?

these pictures of someones "camp" were taken near Lake Defiance (shown on most maps of The Park, but difficult to find.)

This stump found on the trails off the road up from Owens Beach was shown in the old Tacoma Historical Society photo collection as an  example of a fish smoker. The ledges of cutting around the stump provide places for the large bark panels the enclosed the smoker. The stump is now fed by an under ground stream all year around. The cuts on the this smoker are made with steel tools but whether by Indians or Europeans educated by Indians I don't know.