PHOTOGRAPHS BY

BARBARA GOODBODY

“O, in this single hour I live
      All of myself and do not move.
      I, the pursued, who madly ran,
                     Stand still, stand still, and stop the sun!”
                                                                 - MAY SARTON

SUNRISE I,  2009, Inkjet Print, 36 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches

"These photographs are abstracted images of the sunrise taken in a camera over Penobscot Bay, Camden, Maine, during two summers, 2008 and 2009.  

     Ode to New Grange:  The Life Force

     Sunrise at Newgrange, Ireland, on the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, celebrates the merging of the Solar power (Father Sun) with (Mother) Earth, honoring the end of winter and beginning of the reawakening of the Earth.  Newgrange is a World Heritage site that dates back to early man, 3200 B.C.
     In these Sunrise photographs, I celebrate Life, the continual re-awakening each day of the Earth and our life on this planet.  These photographs are a gentle request to humans to awaken to the bounties our universe provides, and to awaken and honor our duality, these dual energies within us, as the Sun awakens our Earth to the Gifts of Life."

                                                                                                                                                        - Barbara Goodbody

SUNRISE II, 2009, Inkjet Print, 36 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches

SUNRISE III, 2009, Inkjet Print, 36 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches

SUNRISE IV, 2009, Inkjet Print, 36 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches

SUNRISE V, 2009, Inkjet Print, 36 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches

SUNRISE VI, 2009, Inkjet Print, 36 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches

SUNRISE VII, 2009, Inkjet Print, 36 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches

SUNRISE VIII, 2009, Inkjet Print, 36 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches

SALUTATION TO THE DAWN

Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth;
The glory of action;
The splendor of achievement;
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision;
But today, well lived, makes every yesterday
a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Attributed to Kalidasa

SALUTATIONS TO THE DAWN, 2015, Book series, 1/30, Linen and board, Inkjet Prints, 5 x 8 x 1/2 inches