Art and Science

A laughing face appears in a closeup photograph of ice by Kirk Decker
Apophenia in the form of a laughing face in a fine art abstract photography of ice by photographer Kirk Decker.

Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, by Eric Kandel. Abstract art, says Kandel, is … the key to understanding both how art and science inform one another, and together, they might open up entirely new ways of seeing and imagining. http://bit.ly/KirkDeckerAbstract

CameraMan

Kansas City Wedding Photograhy by Kirk DeckerFrom a wedding I photographed with Rhonda Hughes. I was moving old weddings from CDs onto hard drives, turns out CDs and DVDs are very poor archival storage devices, when I came across this image. It looks as if he was ready to capture a new memory when, just for a moment, he became lost in an old memory. I wonder if he was thinking about his own wedding, the sudden flash of years between that time and this.