I have a lot of different thoughts when I work on a project. With some projects I go into them with a theme involved and that guides the things I choose to photograph. That can make the project cohesive and the pictures seem related. The longer projects seem to be a lot different. Especially when I have periodic deadlines. When I have the freedom of time I can create and then think and then create again when I have what I think is a good idea.
What I come up with when I have short or set deadlines makes a project like this difficult. While the purpose of this is ultimately to raise money for cancer, and I think a lot about people I know who have had cancer, the disease itself and what I have that I might be able to express with a picture, what I can come up with varies greatly from day to day. Some days I lack time to do something that I want to, some days I lack ideas. My thoughts during the day make a big difference too. There are days I just don’t want to think about cancer, and some days I just want to do something fun.
Today I was thinking about how cancer really messes with our lives. It strikes everywhere and it doesn’t just affect the person with a positive diagnosis. It spreads out in random directions and touches people near and far. It wreaks havoc on people financially, physically, emotionally and in pretty much every way imaginably. So as I dropped food coloring in some water and watched as it did its thing. It took on a life of its own, starting from a single drop and then oozing out in all directions.
It summed up my thoughts fairly well.