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Showing posts with label thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thoughts. Show all posts

Monday, August 29, 2011

At a Loss for Words

I have come to realize that I suck at writing about my...well anything. 
I have so much going on up in my head that when I actually try to write about something, I can't. I get frustrated from all the different ideas and viewpoints and research that I just quit.  Instead of writing a neatly organized intellectual paper, or an artist statement for that matter, all I find myself able to do is write messy scribbles of random thoughts out on a piece of paper. I literally have about 10 pages of randomly organized messy notes pertaining to my art and why I do what I do.  But am I able to form all that into a simple 1 paged artist statement? Heck no.  Even with all those notes in front of me I still feel overwhelmed and under prepared.  I have done about 8 months of research and still feel like I MUST do more. I know that one can never do enough research, but I mean really.  I have a time limit here and need some desperate help.

I never thought it was possible to feel so out of control when you try to stay so overly organized.  It seems to me that I am SO organized and too prepared (research & studying wise) that my brain doesn't know what to do.  Allow me to have a conversation with someone about my photographs & I can talk for hours but the second I have to write it down all neat and well prepared I am done for.

Bleh.

Well here is some food for thought:

"Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe. 
Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm
at the end as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things."
- from the Tao Te Ching
Kodak 35mm - Milledgeville, GA  

Sunday, June 12, 2011

What do people think when they look at my images?  Do they get the same feeling that I get?
I don't want someone to say "O, this is such a pretty picture" and that be the only thing they say about it.  Explain to me in words, out loud, what you are thinking.  Even if it sounds completely stupid, I want to know.  I feel like the most important type of criticism for me right now would be in that form.  I feel as though I am in the stage of experimentation anyway so in a sense, I don't need/want people to criticize the form, contrast, and such of my images.  I simply want them to tell me what they feel and think of when they stare into one of my images.  What deeper meaning do they think of?

Here is one for y'all to get started on...
Be honest, I need some direction and insight on what my photographs bring to people.

Kodak 400TX B&W 120 film

Side note: all of my images are Photographed, Developed, and Processed by me.  I only use film and do not use photoshop for any 'special effects'.