Alex Gordon-Brander

Art, photography & piano

Piano and audio recordings, photographs, and images drawn from devotional art and mythology.

At the piano

Ancestral Healing 7

Audio recording · 13:54

Thangka-inspired work

White Tārā seated within a ring of protective figures
White Tārā
· Work in progress
A devotional companion to a White Tārā liturgy.
Zeus holds a lightning bolt within a field of mythological figures
Zeus
A mythological study of lightning, order and the elements.
Vajrayoginī in a landscape of flames and clouds
Vajrayoginī
A companion to a Vajrayoginī sādhana.
White Tārā and Vajrayoginī shown side by side
Radiance and Arising
White Tārā and Vajrayoginī as a diptych.
White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī shown in three panels
White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī
The three studies as a triptych.

Photography

A figure stands beside a spiral of stones on a bluff.
The stone spiral
Small figures stand against the layered horizon and orange clouds.
Three figures below the sky
A low horizon between dark sand and a shaft of blue light.
Blue hour at the waterline
Dark limbs open onto a luminous green canopy.
Looking up into the canopy
A tiger looks directly into the camera.
Tiger at eye level
A bright yellow fish turns against deep blue water.
Yellow fish, blue reef
More photographs
A lone bird in a field of cloud below the orange horizon.
Bird above the cloud sea
Foam and dark stone, photographed close to the waterline.
Water over black rock
A ridge seen across pale purple growth and green scrub.
Lavender hills
Crimson flowers frame the last light in the valley.
Bougainvillea at dusk
An orange disc rises above a standing stone and a crowd in silhouette.
The sun above the standing stone
A narrow band of surf between the dawn sky and its reflection.
The sand holds the sky
A tight study of red petals spiralling inward.
Rose, close up
A hanging light catches the sky in a tangle of leaves and wires.
A light in the branches
A red fruit on a ledge against the blue sea.
Red fruit by the sea
A diagonal arc of colour over bands of cloud.
Rainbow in the weather
Red roots lead to a bright, low horizon.
Roots at dawn
A stairway climbs toward a gold figure under an open sky.
Steps to the shrine
Alex sits beneath a gold seated Buddha.
Portrait in a Buddhist shrine
Silhouettes cross the rocky shore beneath a break in the clouds.
Figures in the evening light
A lone walker casts a long shadow across the sand.
Long shadow on the beach
Bands of magenta and orange light spread over the shore.
Magenta sky over the beach
A crab is held up against a field of blue.
Crab against the sky
Waves break under a bank of cloud lit gold from behind.
The sea under a gold sky

Visual storytelling

A storyboard image for The Space Between
The Space Between
A frame from a wordless story about giving someone room to approach in their own time.