Social Landscapes

Clarity at Last

I have found that it takes the exact opposite approach to creating art than what I have been disciplined to do for the past four to six years to attain any clarity for my own projects, post college. I have been photographing, when I have the time on weekends, things that I am oddly attracted to, but for no particular reason other than the subject is somehow drawn to me. Mostly mundane elements of a society that most tend to ignore. I often think, why the hell am I attracted to this, why am I taking its picture. These questions were never the basis of any of my college projects, in which I would have to formulate an idea and then go out and find something to objectify my idea. Its taken a year or more, of photographing with only a slight idea of what I was looking at to allow my images to produce an idea for me, so that I can follow its threads to whatever direction it will take me. My god it feels nice to have final started to put these visual threads into somewhat of a web that I can begin to fill out. Im just beginning to realize how much potential these pieces of the puzzle could amount to, and I am so excited to have found a means of working and seeing that can lead me in new directions that even I had not the faintest idea as to where it could go next. I finally have a greater sense of clarity!