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through direct visceral experience - the world of dreams, ecstatic vision,
love and death. The nouminal world can only be known through direct
experience and apprehension –- never provable, but profoundly know-
able. By bringing light out of darkness, the phenomenal and the nouminal
are merged.
Love and death are reconciled and create a new event, – an image,
an idea, a relationship. In visual terms the photographic images that are
created in this manner offer the mystery of a dark field and the deeply
physical and emotional satisfaction of luminous color and sharply de-
fined form and detail. Falcon describes passion and abundance through
his photographs and through his teaching. In his writing, he offers us
intimate personal descriptions of his own life and loves. We are also
challenged and engaged by the introduction of profound philosophical
ideas of Hegel and Heidegger. The dark literary visions of Arthur Koes-
tler and of Albert Camus are the inspirations for Falcon’s 'NyghtVision’.
Like them, he penetrates the darkness,– finds peace and meaning in its
oblivion.
Falcon goes beyond the single narrative and offers technical infor-
mation about the act of seeing – with or without a camera. Rather than
a simple description of the photographic process, he invokes our own
sense of memory and sensual experience as tools for intimate discovery
of the world around us. Although he offers us richly personal stories
and a narrative of his own history, Falcon points the way to our own
self-discovery through seeing and feeling. Like Camus’ 'Rebel’, Falcon
stands alone and points to the whole universe.
"The Moon Is a Jealous Mistress" gives us far more than a book
The dark literary visions of Arthur Koestler and of Albert Camus are the inspirations
for Falcon's 'NyghtVision'. Like them, he penetrates the darkness' finds peace and
meaning in its oblivion.
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