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Ego is like the cloak that shadows the spirit - always doubting, always seeking validation from outside of itself, it is controlling, manipulating, and often driven by primal needs.
Its that voice that tells you - you cannot do this, that voice that makes you feel insecure. Or that voice that tells you to cheat - it will be ok. It is like the voice of the demon that constantly needs to control you. It constantly pumps itself up in order to make you feel good and desperately seeks validation from others. It cringes and becomes the victim when under scrutiny. It disarms you in so many ways.
Spirit on the other hand sits quietly in the background, not judging, just 'being' waiting silently for you to acknowledge and tap into this great fountain of wisdom laying dormant inside of you.
Spirit never doubts, spirit never judges, spirit just 'is' your greatest reservoir that never needs validation. It is your authentic self that knows all things.
When man has exhausted everything outside of himself - only then may he turn in on himself and discover the greatest gift of all - that which lays dormant inside of him.
Society has orchestrated it this way - not wanting you to gain this power that is within each of us.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland RET, Bombardier tram, Chip card validator (slightly cut from B&T)
Shot in a Bombardier tram operated by the RET - the Rotterdamse Electrische Tram - The city's municipal public transport company.
Shot with the Sigma 85, with its aperture almost fully open.
This is number 1357 of Minimalism/Expicit graphism .
SEEKING VALIDATION.
A Meditation on Life’s Journey.
Navigating through life is more a matter of asking the right questions to the answers you seek.
Not all answers give the complete truth, if that question is vague or hesitant.
Often considering the question in full before asking opens up doors to inner truths that you were withholding from yourself.
The answer will come unbidden, all you have to do is recognise that truth.
Wasn't allowed to go to BullFest and I turned down Lehigh's C&C for the month — but it's clear I made the right choice.
In everything we do we are challenged with the question of: Is this right? Is this good? Will this be accepted? And in all of those questions, it is easy to be tricked into thinking that the answer is what we are seeking. But I believe what the artist's soul looks for is not an answer to AM I GOOD ENOUGH, but instead a way to break the question entirely.
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If I try to answer the fundamental question of "Am I good enough?", inevitably the answer is irrelevant. That the question is asked at all proves that we seek validation to what we create. In an attempt to break myself from that validation, to stop the person inside of me who would silence my more adventurous spirit, I will be creating new works. The question will not be if it is good enough, but instead, is it enough - for me.
Model: Steph Pez
Proof that I got the shaft with the celebrity look-alike heritage thingy. Bastards. Looking for validation and keep coming up short.
The Search For Validation. 💟
Last time I checked, there wasn’t a scale for kindness, morality or sense of humour. There wasn’t a grade system for your ability to be swept away inside a beautiful song, or a book, or a poem. There’s no number that can be assigned to the impact your art can have on others, or the way your lover holds you when you come home defeated after a bad day.
I love social media, and I think it can bring all kinds of beautiful things into people’s lives - connection, art, sharing someone else’s joys, the bond of humanity across cultures. Social media essentially brought me a career in something I love, so I owe social media quite a lot.
That said, I’ve found it quite difficult to separate my art from the number that sits next to it. I’ve struggled with not questioning myself when faced with 200+ souls clicking a button to unfollow my work each time I share a new piece. Social media is rewiring us to find our validation in our phone screens, and I can promise you - it’s not there.
I’ve decided to start up a blog - somewhere with no measurements or numbers - to put all my thoughts and behind the scenes. My first post is the making of this image, as well as my journey of social media, and how it’s affected my self esteem. It feels exciting to be taking care of my “art & soul” (see what I did there?) a bit better!
Validation is a wonderful thing. In fact, I would argue that all of us need validation in the things that we do. It’s a vital part of what keeps us going. If you’ve ever received a compliment on one of your photographs, or even something like an award, then you know the sense of pride and accomplishment that comes with it—and the renewed vigor with which you go out to create new, even better photographs than the ones that earned you those accolades in the first place.
All of this is a natural, normal phenomenon that is quite healthy and perhaps even vital to keep us going. But there is a dark side to validation, too. There are times, I think, when the need for validation is so extremely deep that it just goes too far.
It is, I think, imperative that we all occasionally take a moment for self-reflection into this matter. I have seen instances in which the drive for validation was so overwhelming that it ultimately not only soured an individual’s taste for their passion, but even led to estrangement among former friends all sharing that same passion.
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And so when I speak of this idea that we need to sometimes introspect on our own need for validation, what I would say is this: The first thing we must do is we must search within ourselves and learn why it is that we feel driven to create photographs. This means digging deep into our own psyches to ferret out the true reasons for doing it.
Truth be told, there can be so many reasons to get into photography. The need to be recognized for a talent can be one of them, but perhaps you also feel compelled to learn about the subjects you are photographing. Maybe you have a scientific interest in photography and painting with light. Perhaps there is just something about manipulating color, light, or geometry that appeals to you and leaves you feeling satisfied on a deep level.
Any number of these things can be reasons, or you could have reasons of your own—and in fact, you could find that there is not one singular reason to create, but a variety of them. I suspect that variety is the answer for most people. Photography is art, science, and constant learning all wrapped into one, which means it will scratch a great many of our itches at once.
As I’ve said, you will probably also find that the need for validation is one of the reasons why you create photographs. This is where things get tricky because, on the surface, there is absolutely nothing wrong with pursuing validation and recognition for your efforts. Of course those of us who are passionate about our art will want to show it to people. We’re excited for what we’ve created, we hope others will like it, too, and when they do, that validates us and our excitement.
If we put the need for validation on a spectrum, then this is the healthy end of the spectrum. Now, what lies at the unhealthy end of the spectrum?
On the unhealthy side, things start to distort. Here, you will find validation is king. All other things come secondary to that need. Creating photographs is no longer about a passion for colors or geometry. It’s no longer about learning about your subject material. It’s no longer focused on a person’s fascination for the science behind the art.
In a nutshell, when the need for validation takes over and becomes an unhealthy thing, the victim’s photography is no longer about producing a quality, meaningful product. Rather, it becomes a mass-produced thing in which the victim seeks to create as many “good” photographs as rapidly as they can so that once the buzz dies down from their last project, they have something to show to get that buzz going again.
And this is where the validation turns into a vicious cycle—or perhaps more accurately, a downward spiral into not only bitterness, but also the opposite of the intended goal, which is the lack of validation.
You see, when this goes far enough, people will excitedly throw their mass-produced work out into the world—perhaps on social media or elsewhere. Except, this work was produced only with validation in mind, which leads to work that carries no real meaning or interest for most people. Thus, the work gains no attention, and the artist remains unvalidated. But the need to get that validation is so great that after the work flops, they hastily toss something new out, hoping it will capture what the previous work did not.
It’s a sad cycle—and worse, the people trapped in it are often so focused on this need to get that validation that they stop listening to their peers. It’s almost like an addiction. The goal is to get the fix, and everything else is drowned out by this need. While the world may be telling someone stuck in this cycle to slow down, to put meaning and personal growth ahead of the praise, they just can’t. And I’m sure you can see where this would create conflict, not only of the internal kind, but among groups of peers, too. So what is the lesson here? It’s that all things are best when in balance. Of course, we all want validation—and we all need and deserve it, too. But when validation becomes the primary objective, it can become a dangerous beast.
Now go and enjoy the beauty of God’s creation through your lens.
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"Demoralizing off-hand rejections, the feeling that you’re missing out on ‘real life’ because you’re pouring yourself into your passion, the belief that you don’t deserve the recognition you've received — these are problems every creative deals with on a monthly, weekly, and sometimes even daily basis.
But many rejections are just the standard prequel to your first sale; those people who aren't missing out on ‘real life’ often envy those whose lives are ruled by passion instead of convention; and ‘impostor syndrome‘ goes hand-in-hand with well-deserved success."
This is definitely something that resonates with me. Rejection is a tough thing for me to deal with since my work is so personal to me.
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The new 2018 "Freightliner Cascadia Evolution i" being road tested on I-84 near Hermiston, OR in April 2016 by Daimler North America's Product Validation(Test Fleet). The Cascadia Evolution i has a re-designed front end for increase aerodynamics.
Using the ticket machine at the tram stop - even here you can see Covid's effect as the machine opposite the couple (facing the camera) is deactivated to avoid passengers being too close together.
The inspired hill of Vézelay
The Burgundy hill of Vézelay, which French writer Paul Claudel named “eternal”, has been drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims (nowadays more likely tourists) since time immemorial. It has also drawn strife, battles and pillage: the big monastery was no less than six times destroyed by fire, and always rebuilt. Here, the Second Crusade was preached on Easter Day of 1146 by Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux, whom King Louis VII of France had summoned to be lectured on the sort of penance his royal person should submit to to atone for his many sins: Bernard chose the Crusade. Crusaders congregated here as well for the Third one, in 1190.
The history of Vézelay began around 850, when Count Girard de Roussillon founded a nunnery at the foot of the hill, in the locale now occupied by the village of Saint-Père-sous-Vézelay. Fifteen years later, the nuns had been replaced by monks for reasons that never reached us. What we know is that further to a Viking raid on Burgundy in 887, the monks took refuge at the top of the hill, in the remnants of a Roman oppidum, and never went down again.
Originally dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the monastery they built on the hilltop was placed in 1050 under the patronage of Mary Magdalene, further to the claimed transport of her bones from the Holy Land by a monk named Badillon. This so-called “transposition” was validated by the Pope, but the people of Provence rebelled fiercely against that ruling: it had indeed always been well known that the saint, who had been the very first, even before the apostles, to see Christ resuscitated, had left the Holy Land and come to France where she finished her life in the mountains of the Sainte- Baume, which were named after her. Her bones had been kept in the basilica of Saint-Maximin, the largest church in the whole of Provence.
Thus sanctioned by the Pope, and confirmed yet again by Pascal II in 1103, the claim of the Vézelay monks drew immense crowds (and brought enormous riches). The fact that they also claimed to have the bones of Martha and Lazarus were not for nothing in the considerable attraction the abbey had on a pilgrimage-hungry Christendom. However, the Provençal people were victorious in the end, when they revealed that the bones of the Magdalene, which had been hidden during the 900s as the Saracens drew nearer, were opportunely re-discovered in 1279. This time, Pope Boniface VIII found in their favor and that ruling was never overturned: the pilgrimage to Vézelay was dead, even though the big church kept its dedication.
The rest of the history of Vézelay is a long downhill walk. In 1537, the Benedictine monks are replaced by canons. In 1568, the Protestants seize the church and burn it again. Finally, in 1819, lightning strikes and sets the church aflame for the last time. When architect Viollet-le-Duc, mandated by Minister Prosper Mérimée, arrives on-site in 1840, the abbey church of Vézelay is but a gutted carcass, ready to collapse. That same year, the church was put on the first list of French Historic Landmarks (“Monuments historiques”) and restoration works were undertaken urgently; they were to last until 1861, and many other such works have been undertaken since.
The church was granted basilica status in 1920, and in 1979 it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, as it is the starting point of one of the major Paths to Compostela, the Via Lemovicensis, so-named because it runs through the large city of Limoges.
On that day of June 2024 I went to Vézelay as a side trip during a photographic expedition for the Fondation pour la Sauvegarde de l’Art Français, one of the non-profit heritage organizations I work for as a pro bono photographer, it was raining. Therefore, I took no photo of the outside, but instead concentrated on the inside. Furthermore, a lot of what can be seen on the outside, including the façade and the tympanum, are re-creations of the 19th century by Viollet-le-Duc, and thus much less interesting for our purpose.
This photograph is a good starting point to describe more in detail the famous tympanum of Vézelay.
First, it is installed in the narthex (there was another one on the façade [gable wall] of the church, but it hasn’t reached us; the mediocre one that can be seen there today was invented by Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century), i.e., the part of the church that is indoors, but yet not in the nave proper. It is a sort of antechamber to which certain people were restricted because they couldn’t attend Mass inside: non-baptized persons, or followers of other religions not yet converted. The narthex marks the separation between the profane world outside and the sacred world within.
The tympanum has a general fantail shape; a semi-circular archivolt crowns it. At the bottom, the lintel rests on two sculpted jambs and a central trumeau that delimit the twin doors. Built between 1120 and 1140, the tympanum is 9 meters long and 5.25 meters tall. It is sculpted in high relief; some figures are even done in ronde-bosse, or “in the round” in English, meaning that the stone has been hollowed all the way behind the subject to make it stand out more.
The central scene depicted on the tympanum is very original, and probably even unique in all of the Romanesque sculpture. It seems to bring together the themes of Ascension and Pentecost, two important Christian holidays that are only separated by ten days in the yearly calendar. Jesus Christ occupies the whole height of the tympanum and appears to ascend, as His head pierces the arch that is above the central part of the tympanum. The multiple folds in His vestments appear stirred by the wind, reinforcing the impression of upward movement. As a reminder, the Ascension is the holiday that commemorates the last meeting of Jesus with His disciples and His being called to God’s side.
However, Christ is also depicted here inside a mandorla, an almond-shaped symbol (mandorla is Italian for almond) used to describe a person already in the Heavens. One then talks about Christ en gloire, i.e., “Christ in Glory” or “Christ in Majesty” (Lat. Maiestas Domini), and indeed He is seated on a throne, which is a posture not generally used when depicting the Ascension... Therefore, this main scene on the tympanum is usually associated with the Pentecost, or the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles, fifty days after Easter. This interpretation is reinforced by the rays emanating from Jesus’s hands.
Around Christ are the apostles, Peter on His right holding a key, and Paul (peering out of the lintel) also bearing a key, as both are regarded as founders of the Church. The fact that Paul seems to have been included as an afterthought in a space where he was not supposed to be (all the faces have been hacked off during the French Revolution) is not the only disturbing element in this composition. Indeed, some of the apostles are to the right of Christ under a harmless cloud and with their books open (normal), while the others are on His left (sinistra), under a stormy cloud and with their books closed (most definitely not normal). The reason for this arrangement has caused many debates among Mediævalists. Some seem to lean towards the fact that this represents what awaits those who do not believe: damnation after the Last Judgment. Others (apparently a majority) prefer to see an evocation of the power Christ confers upon the apostles: that of forgiving sins —although personally I am hard put to construe what I see here in that manner. Finally, some others believe it is an allusion to the symbolic closure of the Old Testament, replaced by the New one.
All apostles look in various directions towards the peoples of the Earth, depicted in the semi-circular register above the main scene. The eight representations show symbolic scenes about the benefits of the Christian faith. I will not explain them all in order not to make this caption lengthier than it already is, but I am ready to answer any question about them.
Finally, the archivolt above shows a Zodiac, i.e. a representation of each sign, associated with the corresponding month’s labor (say, pruning of trees in March and harvesting of crops in July), with the addition of the solstices and equinoxes. Those 29 small motifs make up the most comprehensive Mediæval Zodiac I have ever seen.
If you have been subjected to an entirely new environment – say, a completely new city/country/culture and were unsure of how to conduct yourself, chances are that you have observed what everyone around you does, for social cues, and followed them. Right?
Mimicry is likely a subconscious tribal-level survival skill. Visually signaling “I am one of you” meant “I am not an invader/enemy” and hoping it works. Whew!
So, when meeting someone new, if you have mimicked their body language, posture, or behavior to try to ‘fit in’ and/or accommodate the environment, it is highly probable that you were seeking social validation, even if you didn’t really realize it. It’s instinctual.
As Nora, seeking to “fit in” as an authentic woman was a life goal for many years.
In all this time, I just wanted to convincingly, and unhesitatingly, be perceived as a female: certainly by men, but; more importantly by women.
Evidence of success was elusive.
Sure, acceptance/compliments by trans or other CDs was welcome. The recent honor as PTG Magazine Cover Girl is an example. It definitely feels good!
Flattering comments by male admirers has also been encouraging. Thanks!
Yet, my ego has yearned for experience with unknowing, but accepting GG’s to achieve true social validation. This has rarely happened.
I’ve learned that GG’s who are paid for services such as photography, makeovers, sales of garments, hair etc. – do not count. Regardless of how friendly these women have been – the relationship is transactional. We are “friends” only if I remain their customer. I’ve learned this the hard way. Sigh.
At this stage in my life, after a lot of time/$ investment, this realization saddens me beyond words.
Nora
PS - With a refreshed perspective, the importance of few priceless friendships with other's like me has become magnified. Thanks again my friends - you are more important than you will ever know.
Today validates my belief that we need to go beyond labels and stereotypes before we can say we know a person.
I was on all fours taking this photo when I overheard the janitor speaking with the security guard. I can't remember his exact words but I distinctly heard him using the word "prism" and related words in explaining the concept of rainbows.
I smiled to myself and felt a little sad. I don't think he was a prince sent by his father to work at Starbucks as part of his rites of passage. He was a smart person who was not given the same opportunities as I was.
As I sip my tall caramel macchiato, I think about how blessed I am and hope that he finds his pot of gold soon.
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-taken with a Nokia N96-
I have read so many personal stories this past couple of weeks, and each one has touched me. One of the recurring themes that has come out of these stories is that each of us, at different times in our lives, need hope and validation in order to live life well.
Some illnesses like multiple sclerosis, crohn's disease, fibromyalgia, lyme disease are difficult to diagnose as the symptoms can be mistaken for so many illnesses or it is so difficult to accurately describe what the symptoms are like that often those symptoms are dismissed by ourselves and the medical profession. While waiting for diagnosis we may lose hope and begin to doubt ourselves ... and before long a negative spiral of emotional and mental distress compounds our ability to cope. All we need is hope and validation.
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The thick Jacques Cartier.river is splits in two branch by a massive heap of earth which creates Montreal island. The both river branches stay big and stream is strong. The eastern branch is also devised itself to form smaller islands.
Sunset was on the way, I was standing one of those, looking at the city skyline. Then, I saw this young couple with in front of the huge bridge bearing the same name as the river.
Canadian Armed Forces soldiers from 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry conduct a Tube-Launched, Optically Tracked, Wireless-Guided missile range during Exercise APOLLO VALIDATION at 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Detachment Wainwright training area, March 7 2022.
Please credit: Corporal Djalma Vuong-De Ramos, Canadian Armed Forces photo
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Des soldats du 3e Bataillon du Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry des Forces armées canadiennes tirent un missile filoguidé à poursuite optique, lancé par tube, au cours de l’exercice APOLLO VALIDATION se déroulant dans le secteur d’entraînement de la Base de soutien de la 3e Division du Canada, détachement Wainwright, le 7 mars 2022.
Photo : Caporal Djalma Vuong-De Ramos, Forces armées canadiennes