Meditations began simply as a collection of photographs that I loved.

Verging on the abstract, an overriding connection

of relative simplicity and a quiet nature defined the series from early on,

and I began thinking of them as visual prayers, offerings, or koans.

Some of the photographs invite an intimacy,

while others offer up vast spaces, and a natural pattern surfaces through them all.

Each feels to me to be simultaneously a point of departure and of focus,

a moment of breath providing an opportunity to engage

both the personal and the universal.

 

-Ben Johnson 2010