Sundial - the shadow knows
by Andrea Lazar
Title
Sundial - the shadow knows
Artist
Andrea Lazar
Medium
Photograph - Photography, Fine Art Photography
Description
Equatorial or armillary; vertically or horizontally oriented gnomons; planes, spheres, cylinders or cones that receive the light or shadow; alignment with celestial poles... the seemingly simple sundial has a dizzying array of principles, concepts and structures at work! To include even a brief meaningful summary here turned into too ambitious an idea.
Instead, I found a wonderful poetic expression of what sundials represent. Often bearing mottos that speak of the passing of time - this one fit here beautifully -
"The shadow of my finger cast
Divides the future from the past;
Before it stands the unborn hour
In darkness and beyond thy power;
Behind its unreturning line
The vanished hour no longer thine;
One hour alone is in thy hand,
The now on which the shadow stands."
(attributed to a sun dial in Wellesley, Mass.)
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June 13th, 2013
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