PROMPTS
I am standing on the porch.
Alone and my family is seen through the background of the picture. They are in the window starring as I am being pictured on the porch.
This was after my first dance recital.
I am still in full costume and have a bouquet of flowers in my hand the size of my entire body.
I am dead center in the middle of the porch.
I am smiling so hard you would think I would have broken my face.
In my hand aside from the flowers I hold a trophy smaller than my pinky but with an expression on my face that exudes pride.
The porch is no longer there today. We had re-did our home a few years ago and the porch was gone.
The memories however are not gone. I have the picture to prove it.
Me and my mom are on the beach. Up north in my absolute favorite place in the entire world.
I am young and the wind is blowing.
Both of our hair is flailing in the wind. I am kissing my mom's cheek and she is smiling wider than I have ever seen before.
We are in black and white and happy as clams as cheesy as that sounds.
The thoughts and feelings brought up when starring at this image literally puts a smile on my face. I could not be happier when starring at this picture. It reminds me of the enormous amount of good times we have had at that cottage and the amazing times we are still having.
Going back to that place now nothing has changed.
The cottage is still the same and the love my mother and I have for one another is different.
It is stronger.
I am growing up and we are beginning to understand one another.
I wouldn't act or look differently whatsoever.
#13. To be completely honest I don't complete understand this blog question because I don't understand the art. The link was not working and I am really confused so I am going to just go for it I guess.
Human interaction with nature and physical land happens every single day.
Sitting on the grass.
Climbing trees.
Littering.
Digging holes in the ground.
Forgetting things in the park after a casual picnic.
I have actually left my shoes in the park once.
I think a beautiful piece of land art would be a sculpture of a trash can made out of litter and actually used as a trash can for real life.
And to be honest I am not really sure what a piece of man-made land art would be so I am going to take a crack at it. I think making something out of the grass would be a wonderful idea. Maybe something like a plant made out of grass rather than leaves and branches.
Familiar Place: My Home.
Unfamiliar Place: A Court House.
A picture representation would be a picture portraying a sense of pure confusion because that is exactly what I would feel upon entering a court house. A picture possibly of a book in my hands held upside down. A lawyer book. I know this sounds corny and cheesy and almost childish but imagining it in my head and it is the perfect representation of the confusion I have towards a court room.
The moon.
A picture of complete blank space would represent an almost untouched moon.
Important place in past: My bedroom.
Comfort. Excitement. Imagination. Safe.
Important place in present: My car.
Comfort. Relaxation. Serenity. Excitement. Scared.
I would take a picture of me running through my bedroom because now I spend more time in my car than anything else. I have become a blur in my own room. I am always on the go much like my car and I am for the most part the one making my car go.
"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."
- Duane Michals
My imagination is the most important thing that I own.
It allows me to create.
Create what I cannot see.
You can't see everything and the things you can't see can lead to immense amounts of creativity and inspiration.
My dreams are actually extremely influential in my art and photographs.
"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
- Berenice Abbott
A photograph is the past regardless of how many seconds ago it was taken.
The only thing that is in the present is what you see through the viewfinder.
I love being able to capture the past while at the same time feeling like you are in the present through pictures.
Looking at pictures you feel like you are there but in reality it is the past and always will be as soon as that "click" sounds.
"I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways."
- Duane Michals
I completely agree that a picture should be a new take on something people see day after day.
What is the point of taking a picture of something I already knew was right in front of my face?
Photography is an art and a craft that has to be mastered and taking a picture of the ground is nothing new.
But taking a picture of a blade of grass within an entire grass landscape is a new take on something a civilian sees every single day.
That is the magic with photography seeing something new through a viewfinder that no one else can.
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