" ' As Above so Below; as Below, so Above.' This centuries old Hermetic axiom embodies one of the great Principles of Universal Phenomena...Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled." (The Kybalion). It is awfully trite to say- nevertheless a truth- that life has it's ups and downs, highs and lows etc... but to see the peaks and falls photographically rather than simply speaking about them may attract a peculiar and curious interest about these clichés. Light and dark for instance, are "opposites," but what is the designation of boundaries between the beginning of darkness and the end of light? There are none- there are simply varying degrees between the two poles of actuality.
Photographically, an image of an single event, circumstance, or object may be captured in infinite approaches, perceptibly disparate, but what is objectively being archived is, in fact, the same. A comparison of circumstance or state will be digitally captured from a high vantage point, and an almost identical situation will be acquired- by means of an analog input such as 35mm camera, or an appropriated image from prints sources- but at a shallow vertical extent. My intentions are to capture contrasting appearances of the same matter in order to substantiate the Hermetic principle, " that the difference between things seemingly diametrically opposed to each other is merely a matter of degree," (The Kybalion).
