This picture is quite different from everything else that I have been doing lately, which is, to me, refreshing. At this point in my life, everything is a matter of synthesis. All of the thoughts, experiences, and impressions of my life are being accumulated and fused into a single system, into a single being. I feel a connection to my past (my ancestry in my body, my skin, my movements), a connection to the world around me (my sense of self disintegrating into a bigger picture), and a connection to the future (my vision for what is to come flying away from me, out of reach).

 

This photo went through several stages of being, and at one point I even threatened to burn a hole in it, so as to add text and a more literal perspective. I had a lit match in my hand, this photo in the other, and was about to bring the two together when suddenly my subconscious screamed for me to stop. I always complain about when an artist's "message" becomes too obvious, when it overpowers the creation. An artwork's message is, I think, an entity that should always be left subjective to the viewer, and to add text to this particular image would only serve to defeat that purpose.