From the Flower Shop

The leaves weren’t changing colors, so I helped them out.

One of the most frightening things in the world is a blank page. It has the potential to be anything, but until something is placed on it all the potential for success is latent; but so is the potential for failure. Leaving the page blank seems like the only way to avoid failure, but isn’t not even trying a failure in itself?

I have been examining a blank page for the last two months. Procrastination is easy if you can think of any reason to entertain it and I have been telling myself that I wasn’t ready to start this project for the last eight weeks. I could tell myself I’m almost ready for another eight, but on the last day of the first week of the new year, ready doesn’t seem to be the answer. But starting today, one picture a week for a year just seems so reasonable that, whether I’m ready or not, today is the day.

I got the materials for this picture from the cutting floor of Brown Floral. I had several pictures that I created from things that were just going to be thrown away. I may post some of them in Instagram. In the end this was my favorite and the choice to start my project, One Man’s Trash.

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