The photographer

March 31, 2023 Paul Politis 0

“There’s no new ideas in the world, there’s only new arrangements of things. Everything is new, every minute is new. That means re-examining. Life changes […]

Parking garage (black and white photograph)

Parking garage

March 27, 2023 Paul Politis 0

*** “People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, […]

Apparition, Ottawa, February 26, 2023 (photograph) by Paul Politis

Apparition

March 18, 2023 Paul Politis 0

Detail: “We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are […]

For madmen only

March 16, 2023 Paul Politis 0

“Do you think I can’t understand your horror of the fox trot, your dislike of bars and dancing floors, your loathing of jazz and the […]

Untitled (black and white photograph)

Play

December 20, 2022 Paul Politis 0

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with […]

Ottawa, April 12, 2022

Internal combustion

December 6, 2022 Paul Politis 0

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something […]

Untitled (black and white photograph)

Y Pues Nada

June 19, 2022 Paul Politis 0

“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of […]

Crown (black and white photograph)

Crown

June 10, 2022 Paul Politis 0

From The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron: “For most of us, the idea that the creator encourages creativity is […]

Closed Until Further Notice (black and white photograph)

In the moment

April 23, 2022 Paul Politis 0

*** “Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures […]

Trespassing

April 19, 2022 Paul Politis 0

“It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and […]

Wilderness

March 3, 2022 Paul Politis 0

“Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. How shall I […]