Unbound Art

The images in this book were selected from a large body of photographs made between 2006 and 2012 in the section of Taughannock creek that lies immediately before the famous waterfall by the same name (this creek flows near the village of Trumansburg in the state of New York).  The book opens with a micro essay and a poem, and closes with another poem and a brief essay. These texts present the stream as the flow of life as a whole. They also strongly suggest that without the enhanced perception and caring attention needed to see things as they really are, the chaotic state of human affairs will remain largely unseen and largely unattended. For a preview of the blurb edition: http://www.blurb.com/b/4317591-seeing-the-stream-being-the-stream

Warren Greenwood article in the Ithaca Times Posted:  Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:00 am By Warren Greenwood  |  0 comments F ernando Llosa is an artist who lives in Trumansburg. He’s a painter, sculptor, and photographer, and he has created a new work: a print-on-demand book called Seeing the Stream, Being the Stream: A Meditation . There is also an exhibit of photographs from the book on display at the Ulysses Philomathic Library. The book includes a title page (with a magical winter photo of Taughannock Falls, two poems, some explanatory text, sixty photographic images, and a philosophical essay. “The images used for this book,” Llosa wrote, “were culled from a large body of photographic work made from 2006 to 2012 in a relatively small section of Taughannock Creek in Trumansburg, N.Y., mostly upstream from the famous waterfall of the same name. There are a few, classically rectangular images that are single captures. The rest are generally more elongated composit