Article August 27, 2007 Issue

LIGHT BLURS

TONY LOBL,—SURBITON, SURREY, ENGLAND

Most of us grew up believing two wrongs don't make a right. But there are exceptions, as I found when I got a new cellphone. The model I purchased had a poor quality camera (Wrong #1). So I added a deliberate dose of bad camera shake (Wrong #2). The result? Amazingly, these two wrongs made a light blur, which, artistically speaking, became a sort of right.

More recently, I have been doing the same with a digital camera. I love color. I love pattern. I love movement. And when I take photos like these, I find I have all three! To me, these light blurs point to the idea that "the influence or action of Soul confers a freedom, which explains the phenomena of improvisation and the fervor of untutored lips" (Science and Health, p. 89).

I love abstract art but cannot wield a paintbrush. I can shake a mobile phone or a camera, though, and since I can claim no credit for composing the images you see here, I feel that light-blurring might be described as the joy of observing what an expectancy of Soul's boundless creative possibilities can produce—just like life, really!

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