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THE ARTIST
These are the wandering journeys of a thoughtful mind, a passionate eye, a fey wit and an earth loving heart through the landscape with camera in hand.
Cate Kerr is a freelance photographer, artist, wordsmith and graphic designer with her roots firmly planted in the good dark soil of the eastern Ontario highlands. She spends her happiest hours rambling on her few hundred wild acres near McDonalds Corners in the Lanark Highlands, and the camera is her third eye - it is the magical lens through which she sees the earth and the heavens and connects with them in a profound and elemental way.
A naturalist all her days, she is an ardent devotee of twilight, untrodden lands, full moons, liminal spaces and the wild wisdom which sustains the cosmos. She confesses cheerfully to a love of old trees, quiet beaver ponds, meandering streams, weathered rail fences and starry, starry nights.
Cate Kerr is a freelance photographer, artist, wordsmith and graphic designer with her roots firmly planted in the good dark soil of the eastern Ontario highlands. She spends her happiest hours rambling on her few hundred wild acres near McDonalds Corners in the Lanark Highlands, and the camera is her third eye - it is the magical lens through which she sees the earth and the heavens and connects with them in a profound and elemental way.
A naturalist all her days, she is an ardent devotee of twilight, untrodden lands, full moons, liminal spaces and the wild wisdom which sustains the cosmos. She confesses cheerfully to a love of old trees, quiet beaver ponds, meandering streams, weathered rail fences and starry, starry nights.
THE STUDIO
The KerrdeLune Design Works is an ongoing work of creativity and deep thought by its author, Catherine Kerr (c) 2005-2009, and all rights to original imagery, essays and poetic scribblings are reserved to her.
The studio is a home-based photography and graphic design atelier located in the Ottawa valley. It has been open since 2006, providing expert creative assistance and guidance in the areas of photography, publication design and print materials, corporate identity and brand development, advertising, editing, multimedia and training materials.
To quote from written materials or use the imagery herein, kindly contact Cate and ask for written permission. She is generally happy to grant permission, and it is usually gratis for non-profit uses.
The studio is a home-based photography and graphic design atelier located in the Ottawa valley. It has been open since 2006, providing expert creative assistance and guidance in the areas of photography, publication design and print materials, corporate identity and brand development, advertising, editing, multimedia and training materials.
To quote from written materials or use the imagery herein, kindly contact Cate and ask for written permission. She is generally happy to grant permission, and it is usually gratis for non-profit uses.
Wild Tidings
AVAILABILITY
The photos in this portfolio are available as limited edition blank greeting cards, prints, note cards and card sets. Each was captured with a state-of-the-art digital camera at high resolution and is printed on an Epson fine art giclee printer using a patented printing process, environmentally sensitive photo and card stocks, and archival inks which deliver unsurpassed image quality and long lasting results. If you frame an image and display it in your home or present it to someone as a gift, it will bring them pleasure for many years. Greeting cards and prints are available at Perfect Books in Ottawa and Cindy's Candle Accessories in Lanark. Alternatively, if you are interested in acquiring cards or prints or in purchasing images as stock photography, please feel free to contact me for further information and pricing.
elemental
The header for this site consists of the circular "Enso" symbol, representing community, non-duality and the circle of existence, drawn in white. On it is superimposed the brushwork symbol for the Buddha or "Awakened One" rendered in black.
The typefaces used are (a) Terracotta: originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and digitized by Christina Torres for the P22 type foundry and (b) Eaglefeather, also originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Eaglerock project for which Wright created his character set in 1922 was never built, but the Eaglefeather family of fonts is based on Wright's lettering for that project and was digitized by David Siegel, also for the P22 type foundry. I am truly passionate about typography, and to my mind, Eaglefeather is among the most beautiful typefaces ever published.
Once in a while, I consider redesigning this site, brewing up a new template, adding widgets, gadgets, windbells and bamboo flutes, but the simple truth of the matter is that I like this spare, clean and simple Zen approach, and so the place is likely to remain just as it is for the foreseeable future.
The typefaces used are (a) Terracotta: originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and digitized by Christina Torres for the P22 type foundry and (b) Eaglefeather, also originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Eaglerock project for which Wright created his character set in 1922 was never built, but the Eaglefeather family of fonts is based on Wright's lettering for that project and was digitized by David Siegel, also for the P22 type foundry. I am truly passionate about typography, and to my mind, Eaglefeather is among the most beautiful typefaces ever published.
Once in a while, I consider redesigning this site, brewing up a new template, adding widgets, gadgets, windbells and bamboo flutes, but the simple truth of the matter is that I like this spare, clean and simple Zen approach, and so the place is likely to remain just as it is for the foreseeable future.
What's New
Doors to the Universe,
Dolores Stewart Riccio
Dolores Stewart Riccio (writing as Dolores Stewart) has published a beautiful collection of poems called Doors to the Universe. The book takes its inspiration from the natural world, and I return to the poems again and again for nurture and sustenance. Doors to the Universe can be ordered online at Bellowing Ark Press, and I have always been fond of this literary enterprise which takes its name from Dylan Thomas' sublime Prologue.
Hark: I trumpet the place,
From fish to jumping hill! Look:
I build my bellowing ark to the best
of my love as the flood begins...
Dolores Stewart Riccio
Dolores Stewart Riccio (writing as Dolores Stewart) has published a beautiful collection of poems called Doors to the Universe. The book takes its inspiration from the natural world, and I return to the poems again and again for nurture and sustenance. Doors to the Universe can be ordered online at Bellowing Ark Press, and I have always been fond of this literary enterprise which takes its name from Dylan Thomas' sublime Prologue.
Hark: I trumpet the place,
From fish to jumping hill! Look:
I build my bellowing ark to the best
of my love as the flood begins...
GALLERY
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INSPIRED IMAGES
Wild Thoughts and Fallen Leaves
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
To return to our senses is to renew our bond with wider life, to feel the soil beneath the pavement, to sense — even when indoors — the moon's gaze upon the roof.
David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine — which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.
Wendell Berry
David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine — which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.
Wendell Berry
The great curved earth and the round moon count the days and nights, every one a growth, a movement, a becoming, a curving like the mounded earth, the closing of the circle, the covering of the furrow, a great round.
Meridel Le Sueur, Winter Prairie Woman
When we deliberately leave the safety of the shore of our lives, we surrender to a mystery beyond our intent.
Ann Linnea, Deep Passage
The spider web and the Brooklyn Bridge are both works of nature. We must learn how the delicate dynamics of this unlikely relationship work. The earth's heart is big enough to hold both. The question is, how big is the heart we manifest?
John Daido Loori
It is in the speech of carters and housewives, in the speech of blacksmiths and old women, that one discovers the magic that sings the claim of the voice in the shadow, or that chants the rhyme of the fish in the well.
John Maruskin
Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The centre of the wheel is everywhere.
Robin Morgan, The Burning Times
... nothing you ever understand will be sweeter, or more binding, than this deep affinity between your eyes and the world.
Mary Oliver
For me there is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning -- if not about the meaning of existence generally, then certainly about the meaning of one's individual life and how a person relates to his or her total community/environment. This is not to say that every work of art is or should be a heavily profound statement, indeed many may be very light-hearted, but rather that consciously and unconsciously an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question: "What really matters?"
Freeman Patterson
Always bear in mind that the real journey, the inner one, cannot be captured in words.
Ken Russell
Whatever we do in our lives, we make a text of our lives. Whether or not our stories belong to the shared patterns of the great, true stories—the myths—they are the texts from which we find out our relation to the divine, to one another and to the self.
Linda Sexson, Ordinarily Sacred
Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
Minor White
Meridel Le Sueur, Winter Prairie Woman
When we deliberately leave the safety of the shore of our lives, we surrender to a mystery beyond our intent.
Ann Linnea, Deep Passage
The spider web and the Brooklyn Bridge are both works of nature. We must learn how the delicate dynamics of this unlikely relationship work. The earth's heart is big enough to hold both. The question is, how big is the heart we manifest?
John Daido Loori
It is in the speech of carters and housewives, in the speech of blacksmiths and old women, that one discovers the magic that sings the claim of the voice in the shadow, or that chants the rhyme of the fish in the well.
John Maruskin
Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The centre of the wheel is everywhere.
Robin Morgan, The Burning Times
... nothing you ever understand will be sweeter, or more binding, than this deep affinity between your eyes and the world.
Mary Oliver
For me there is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning -- if not about the meaning of existence generally, then certainly about the meaning of one's individual life and how a person relates to his or her total community/environment. This is not to say that every work of art is or should be a heavily profound statement, indeed many may be very light-hearted, but rather that consciously and unconsciously an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question: "What really matters?"
Freeman Patterson
Always bear in mind that the real journey, the inner one, cannot be captured in words.
Ken Russell
Whatever we do in our lives, we make a text of our lives. Whether or not our stories belong to the shared patterns of the great, true stories—the myths—they are the texts from which we find out our relation to the divine, to one another and to the self.
Linda Sexson, Ordinarily Sacred
Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
Minor White