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Image courtesy Irene Ilachinski
Recent Vitae
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I am, by training and profession, a physicist, specializing in the modeling of
complex adaptive systems (with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics). However, both by
temperament and inner muse, I am a photographer, and have been one for far
longer than my Ph.D. gives me any right to claim an ownership by physics.
Photography became a life-long pursuit for me the instant my parents gave me a
Polaroid instamatic camera for my 10th birthday. I have been studying the
mysterious relationship between inner experiences and outer realities ever
since. My creative process is very simple. I take pictures of what calms my
soul. There may be other, more descriptive or poetic words that may be used to
define the “pattern” that connects my images, but the simplest meta-pattern is
this: I take snapshots of moments in time and space in which a peace washes
gently over me, and during which I sense a deep interconnectedness between my
soul and the world. Not Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment,” but rather a
Sudden Stillness.
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