12 HZ SIGNED

12 Hz - the lowest threshold of human hearing - suggests loudness imperceptible, from plate tectonics to ocean tides, cycles of growth and decay in the forest, to the incomprehensibility of geological time ranges. Ron Jude's 12 Hz photographs make allusion to the elusive scale and veiled mechanics of these phenomena, while recognizing a desire to acquire a broader perspective, beyond of human enterprise, in a period of ecological and political crisis. 12 Hz consists of images of lava tubes and flows, tidal currents, glacial ice and welded tuff formations: images describing the materials the first on the planet, those that make organic life possible. Images were taken in several locations - high lava plains, gorges and caves of Oregon, to the glaciers of Iceland and the lava flows from Kilauea in Hawaii. Jude's photographs do not attempt to tell us how to live or what we have done wrong, nor to reduce the landscape has something sentimental, something to tame and possess. On the contrary, they strive to describe and reckon with the strengths of our physical world that operate independently of anthropocentric experience. 12 Hz photographs operate in service of a simple premise: that change is constant, whether we are able to perceive it or not. stepping back to look at the larger flow system - of which we are not only a small part - this book evokes us to find our own pulse, so to speak, and affirm a feeling on the appropriate scale of being in the hierarchy of this system.