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Note: I am completely rewriting this Statement. Please stay tuned.

Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision started out as an artist but became sidetracked by the high-tech industry. There I spent many years writing reference works for software developers and engineers. I lived at different times in The Bronx where I grew up, the San Francisco Bay Area (various positions in the graphic arts industry), Portland, Oregon (Intel) and the Seattle, Washington area (Microsoft).

Click here to view a memorial to my three-year-old son, David. The Bahá'í Faith is the belief system I have always lived by. My passionate causes are nutrition, animal welfare and the environment. I am nonpartisan and apolitical.

Many of the images on this site were done entirely within the camera or enhanced afterwards in an optical slide copier of my own design. Photoshop was the primary tool used to reinterpret the natural colors and prepare images for archival printing.

The sigline I've used for many years is the best statement I can make as an artist: "Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell

I've included a statement of my interests here because it tells what motivates my art and photography: Bahá'í Faith, environmental concerns, animal welfare and care, cosmology, harmony of science and religion, health and diet issues.

Favorite Music: primarily mid- and late Renaissance (Vivaldi to Mozart), Beethoven, nearly all Jazz, Celtic, folk and pop-rock, Persian and Indian and a highly eclectic variety of other music as well. Among my favorites: Moody Blues, Joni Mitchell, Enya, Van Morrison, Sarah MacLachlin, Stevie Nicks, Gloria Estefan, Loreena McKennitt, and many others. I don't enjoy any heavy metal, Rap, Broadway tunes, or “elevator music.”

Favorite Artists: El Greco, Pablo Picasso (earlier work rather than later), Vincent Van Gogh, Marc Chagall, Claude Monet, Mark Tobey. Artists I really dislike: Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Piet Mondrian.

Favorite Book: Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Favorite types of movies: recent films with high quality CGI and little or no violence unless absolutely necessary for setting or character development. I never watch overtly violent or war-related movies or those with vulgar or buffoonish humor. I enjoy watching high-quality animation such as Disney/Pixar films. My current favorite TV shows are Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, The Dog Whisperer, Meerkat Manor, Monk, and Atlanta Braves broadcasts. I rarely watch News channels except for BBCA. I like the Sci-Fi, National Geographic, Science, History and Discovery channels.

I live now in rural Peach County, Georgia with my German Shepherd Dogs, Luna, Ghibor and Ahava. Next year I plan to move up to the Atlanta area. I have two sons, Nicholas and Benjamin. Both have recently served in the US AirForce in the computer field.

Worthwhile art requires something of us. It insists that we become participants, what J. R. R. Tolkien has called "sub-creators," in the process of understanding the ideas and insights to which the artist has given sensually perceptible form. Art which does not require this creative effort on our part usually has little of importance to say to us. Art which has no subtlety, which does not stretch us beyond our present awareness, simply reminds us of what we already know.
– John Hatcher, The Divine Art if Revelation

Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
– Dylan Thomas