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Let us take a pause from worldly preoccupations. \u00a0What title should I give this photo? \u00a0To call it a ‘Lotus Leaf’ is too profane. \u00a0For Egyptians, Hindus, and Buddhists, the lotus is the embodiment of the sacred. \u00a0Since the flower retracts each night and reopens at dawn, the lotus serves as a symbol for creation, death, and rebirth – for the journey of consciousness in the field of time.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the title should suggest creation inside the water droplet. Any kid with a toy microscope and a nearby pond will tell you: Every droplet is a universe teeming with life.<\/p>\n
In illo tempore<\/em>. \u00a0A scarab beetle emerges from the mud of the Nile; a mighty wind sweeps over a primordial abyss; eons of time pass in the wink of an eye as Brahma sits atop a lotus blossom. Every beginning starts with a word, a dream, a vision, a thought.<\/p>\n Notice the debris inside the water droplet and the vague reflection of the photographer. \u00a0It reveals something about my relationship to the subject. \u00a0Heisenberg might approve of these concepts: Of observer as part of the observed system, of subjective explorations of the same phenomenon. \u00a0Thoughts radiate along vascular paths to the edges of space and time.<\/p>\n Perhaps a title can misrepresent an image. \u00a0Is my point one of certainty or doubt, of insight or incredulity? \u00a0Sometimes a title takes our speculative imagination beyond the temporal image.<\/p>\n Photo: \u00a9 Jeffrey Berger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"