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Geoffrey Gevalt's avatar

I loved the opening and did feel the meditative intent. While I do not live along the Lake, or The Great Lake as Sen. Leahy would say, I spend a great deal of time with it and I too, last week, walked along its shore in Ferrisburgh, bitter cold as it was, and saw the fragments of ice in the water and thought of your photographs. The ice along the cliffs was most spectacular, almost like cathedral organs of white; the trunk of one cedar, atop the cliff, was entirely wrapped with an inch thick coating of ice, a reminder that the essence of the lake, the water, transforms and spreads in a unique way when the air gets as cold as it has been and the mist freezes as soon as it touches something solid. Frozen fog.

P.S. Glad you are updating your previous works; it is important that they not be neglected for they are fragments of your own past worth saving and, I might add, gorgeous and powerful.

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Jonathan Harris's avatar

The Great Lake has so many moods, each with their own special form of beauty.

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Maria Jose Badinella's avatar

Thank you Mr. Harris: each piece you make is well worth the wait

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Jonathan Harris's avatar

Thank you, Maria — so glad you're here.

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Gary Sanderson's avatar

Gripping. As the icecaps melt, the forests burn and the seas belch a toxic and putrid stench, you have found an ancient path worth following. It was a path followed by caribou, mastodon and bison, then indigenous hunters called primitive who knew their world better than we do. Don't leave it, Jonathan, and ponder deeply every fork. No reason to join the mainstream in a race to destruction and extinction. A generation older, I fear it's too late to rite the ship, pun intended.

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Jonathan Harris's avatar

They say that the way knows the way.

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Gary Sanderson's avatar

If you are not familiar with Paul Kingsnorth and his Dark Mountain Project, you may want to Google him. Your High Acres ambition seems to fit a similar template.

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Jonathan Harris's avatar

Thanks for the pointer. I've been following his writing on Substack, but had actually never checked out the Dark Mountain Project itself. I will explore.

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Bryony's avatar

Very beautiful. For the curious & patient viewer who deeply sees, there is the gift of the concentrated magical column of light in the distance at 3:17. Stunning work, Jonathan. Thank you for sharing yourself.

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Jonathan Harris's avatar

Thank you. So glad you found the light!

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Hanna Utkin's avatar

a wealth of information and documentation! fragments remind me of the work of karl friston and his markov blankets.

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Jonathan Harris's avatar

Thank you for this pointer — I will take a look!

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Merilyn Stewart's avatar

Now I know how many colours a lake can show me.

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Jonathan Harris's avatar

Essentially infinite.

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Sue's avatar

lovely film. thanks for this.

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Jonathan Harris's avatar

So glad you enjoyed it!

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