From about day 2 I have rued the fact that I decided that I was going to post 300 pictures in 365 days. With all the constraints that I made at the beginning, I have found it hard to keep up and to try to create something of value on a consistent basis. Of course, if you have been following the pictures, you are probably already aware of this.
However, I once posted a picture somewhere and someone suggested that I do some behind the scenes pictures showing how I set things up or something like that and I guess that this is somewhat similar, except you are not seeing the physical setup, you are a witness to some of what is going on in my head as I work through this project. Kind of scary isn’t it? Yeah, well imagine living in here…
Remember that at the beginning of this project, one of the things I set out to do was create something with practically nothing. To be fair, the fact that I have quite a bit of camera equipment maybe skews this a bit, but I could have used a camera phone if I felt that actually using a camera was too far from the intent of the project. But that puts me in a bind some days. It is dark at 5:30 so if I want to go out and capture a picture of the outdoors I often have limited time and light. If I decide to shoot in the studio, I have a current inventory of; some googly eyes (which have a pretty limited set of uses, some clay, some salt, a couple of pieces of ribbon, food coloring and a few things donated or free magazines from the racks at the local grocery store.
So I stare at this pile of stuff and sometimes I think about what I want to say; other times I think about cancer; and sometimes I think, “Oh crap, what am I going to post today?” I don’t want to post the same picture over and over but with my limited palette I sometimes feel like I am.
This week I have been thinking about a new year and how I still have to work on those resolutions for another 2 weeks before I can completely give up and go back to life as usual (I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who relates to this). And everyone has the goal to lose weight and do something or not do something this year. New Year’s resolutions are kind of like being a kid again. It is this time where we reasonable people can make unreasonable demands of ourselves and it’s ok. For a couple of weeks we have the opportunity to say something outrageous like, “This year I’m going to make myself a jetpack,” and no one would think you were a barking lunatic. In fact, they might let you in on the secret that this year they are going to make the hoverboard real (and I don’t mean that segway knockoff that stole the name) and you would just give them a high-five. For two weeks until we all give up and go back to the same us as before, we can dream and the possibilities are infinite. Thus, today’s picture.
But in all seriousness, dream on people, dream on. (As in keep dreaming… I hate that I felt the need to clarify this, but slang.)