Joshua Cavalier

He asked if I was looking for God | Beauty requires a witness — an observer to organize the chaos of the material world into arrangements of aesthetics and goodness. From life’s most mechanical experiences, the conscious observer composes meaning. We learn from mistakes and mistrials. Failures and accidents become stencils around which we trace new futures. Friendships and lovers come and go, and are the punctuation marks that give our sentences weight and power.

Like the accident of shapes and colors that struck the sidewalk of the park that day, the circumstances of our lives occasionally line up for a marvelous instant and allow us — ever so briefly — to commune with true wonder. Thanks to my camera, I find that even the smallest of coincidences appears marvelous still. Everything beautiful is at least in some part an accident. joshuacavalier.com