It's been a very crazy mundane week. Mostly memorable. I've spent so much time off the path I thought I'd take over spring break: there exists little partying, less sleeping, and (what seems like it has been) even less time left. Artistically, I may have either had a revelation or just solved another riddle of my thesis work.
That being said, I've come to solidify what I have been shooting all along, and why I'm doing it. I've come up with a tentative title of "closer than we notice" and I believe it fits my work because the overarching idea of my photographs has been based around trying to see things the way they are rather than the way we want them to be. I have been trying to place an explanation to the work, but it has only really brought me into conflict. Instead, by realizing that the ideas of suburbia, family history, chaos/order, narratives, space, memory, etc make up my work, I began to realize that I am trying to comment on our (or my) perception of a very subtle but omnipresent and beautiful world.
I'm kind of a freak: basically, I have these moments almost everyday, where I just choose to really look harder at the visual world happening before me. That sounds silly, I know, but when I just stop thinking and begin focusing on the colors, movements, and shapes and their interactions in context of one another, I've been able to see how magnificent the visual world can be. I'm not on drugs, I promise.
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