Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Participate People!

Once

in Gainesville, Florida
I tried to understand my view.

The attitude though which I approach the world and shape my reactions
I tried to ascertain satisfaction and to figure out what made me excited
by capturing my instances in images

I wandered around town and discovered a few things:

I spend a lot of time in the night
My days are full of class and study
and my free time is generally when it is dark

I like color, contrast, form, pattern, and line

I refract and reflect, marking the spot with my presence/absence
or sometimes just my feet.

I am awkwardly aware of the camera lens as a mediator.
Yes, it can capture the 'moment'
but it can also mediate experience
and facilitate both curiosity
and annoyance.

And try as I might, pictures of things soon becomes pictures of people.
Even as I look to form and line
pattern and color
contrast

I inevitability turn to people...


 


 
 














But not only do I focus on friends,
I control the situation.
I prompt and pose
I position.

Candid beginnings transform into directed frames
as instructions and control become a part of how I place myself in the scene.

I am deliberate and expressive
and I want others to play along.

I don't want to merely play with color
or form
or people.
I want to fingerpaint
to stick my hands in and go for it.

I want to participate.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Routine

In my retrospection, I tried to identify patterns, a consistency of perspective that would indicate my 'attitude.'  The patterns were aplenty - so I altered tack and attempted to document my 'routine,' to decipher the patterns not just on home turf, but in the mundane, the ordinary.


Light and Canted Angles

Lines and Form

Color and Contrast


A little bit of China right here

Little did I know I would encounter my past in the present, 
walking towards the future of the day


Lines, Form, and Frame

Reflective Retrospection



Contrast, Shadow and Light


Lines and Circles, a Future Unwritten

People


Contrast and Light

Pattern


Colors

Lines and Freedom


Presence/Absence

I see myself in the images
my reflection, presence/absence






Contrast

Other times
I tend to favor light and shadow
The traces
contrast