I am back. I have one photo from before my leave and a diptych from today. The website has been updated with works from my break. It was fun. Good to get away and be around the creative types again.
I need to keep a grasp on my sanity. 38 days left at the paper.
For today
157/365
Pic of the day 156/365 (before the leave)
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Brian, how have you been man? Its been to long, hang in there man your pictures speak for themselves. Have you lined up another 9-5 yet? The rhetoric and style of your page is reminicient of Donnie Darko, dont listen to the freaky, time-traveling bunny-man.. haha. Many of your photographs are compositionally interesting and beautiful. Your depiction of inanimate objects and settings are haunting, almost like a vague memory from childhood you forgot until a dream... you never had any recollection or knowledge of the memory before that dream, yet the memory felt so real and alive, more real than the real, yet at the same time hauntingly unfamiliar. Photos 14 and 15 in your personal collection are my favorites and i believe capture that duality of real and unreal, fleeting temporality and definitive actuality. I have given up painting for the meantime and have began sculpting which has been satisfying, the process of creation is much less a stream of conciousness which allows me to achieve a greater presence in the moment, where as in drawing i feel much more like a passager, due mainly to my familiarity with it. Working in 3 dimensions is frustrating, but i am catching on pretty fast. I think it is so much harder to make someone appreciate things they already see but miss and even harder to show them, thats why you need that duality in photography and why it is so hard to achieve. You are doing something that anyone feels they can do so it is that much harder to garner respect and attention, it fits your style well though. Photography is a very allusive and over-saturated art, get out of Lumberton, keep your head up and live like your art.. in the moment and just do, no knowledge of past or present just presence, and it will happen. I believe that McTaggart and Nietzsche were right in the way they viewed the nature of time and its influence on the nature of people. The present moment emerges only from where our projected future is curled back into a past. Dont let what you believe will happen based on past events determine the present or else you will force what should come naturally...
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