"Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul
into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses 
and in some sense explains. Music and art and poetry 
attune the soul to God because they induce a kind 
of contact with the creator and ruler of the universe. 
The genius of the artist finds its way by the affinity 
of creative sympathy, or conaturality, into the living 
law that rules the universe. This law is nothing but 
the secret gravitation that draws all things to God as 
to their center. Since all true art lays bare the 
action of this same law in the depths of our own 
nature, it makes us alive to the tremendous mystery of 
being, in which we ourselves together with all other 
living and existing things, come forth from the depths 
of God and return to Him again."

-Thomas Merton, from "No Man is An Island"

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape 
from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, 
but an escape from personality. But, of course, only 
those who have personality and emotions know what it 
means to want to escape from these things."

-T. S. Eliot

Technique
Let's skip it here. Email me if you'd like to know.
Talking the techinical side of photography is so boring 
(not to mention the absurd clunkiness of the jargon. 
Why a '/' in 'f/' stop?).

Publications
Photography: Shutterbug Magazine, The Claremont Review
Poetry: The Claremont Review

Exhibititions
Icon Gallery, Jackson, MS

Awards
Scholastic Gold Key & Silver Key Awards for Photography

Contact me by sending me a message from my
contact page, or by emailing me at:
gardner@gardnermounce.com
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