Photoscapes and the Egg

By Patricia Z. Smith

Photoscapes and the Egg is an intimate book to be savored and kept nearby, perhaps on a coffee table because of its sheer beauty.

Inside its robin egg blue cloth cover are improvised photos of objects, nature, and art, each matched with a photo of an egg inside a cosmic circle--eggs with personalities from the calm ethereal to the hot aggressive. In full, there are more than 100 stunning color photos, all taken with an iPhone.

The match of phenomena and eggs alludes to the dance of the material world with the invisible "birthing source" represented by the egg.

Accompanying text and poems bring stories to the dance.

The juxtapositions evoke surprise, insight, emotions, hope, and refreshment. They make wry jokes and touch on realities beyond the obvious. This book contains unabashed gentleness and spiritual toughness without pretense.

Photoscapes and the Egg sprang from the mind of Patricia Z. Smith, a 79-year-old photographer and writer with extensive life experience and a pull since childhood to meld the physical with the esoteric.

The design by Louis Brody is modern and serene. The book is a gift to the reader and her or his friends. It is a resource for these times and our future.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1957183217
• ISBN13: 9781957183213
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Goff Books
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book, full of power, full of life, with photo's from the experience of an artist with th

This is a lovely book that is a wonder to look through. The author uses the egg as a metaphor for various stages of life and creation. The author uses the most ordinary items of life melded with images of the egg. The photos speak of creativity which reminded me of opening a box of photos from various stages of my own life , connecting thoughts of memories and making an emotional connection. I would highly recommend the book as a "coffee table" book that can be picked up revisited as much as you like. It would make an excellent holiday gift for the "budding photographer" or "artist" in your family.