Photographing God Part II

This is the most mysterious image of God I have captured so far, and I can definitely see a bit of a laugh forming on that ghostly face. If God is light (Apollo is a god of light and the sun, God is light and in him is no darkness at all (John) and in Buddhism, all beings are imbued with a spark of inner divine light), then the attempt to use optical methods for capturing a representation seems reasonable, more reasonable at least then using words. It's quite hard to find serious references to this endeavour. I've just discovered Mel Alexenberg has a site called 'Photographing God', with this heading of text:
'Focus your camera lens on God and you will see God looking back at you. Seeing God is seeing divine light reflected from every facet of your life.' http://photographgod.blogspot.com/
I Haven't thought yet how to frame my project, but I suspect, it's underpinned by a search for the possibilty of experiencing an absence of dread, an absence of specific subjectivity as well as the more laudable academic quest for the unrepresentable - exploring the limits of symbolic representation. Can we have a 'direct experience', for example? This is an analogue device in which there is no inscriptive technology at play, only a fleeting im-material presence. What the viewer sees is only light, which we can pass our hands right through - through God and out the other side, leaving us wondering if we have seen anything at all.