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Day 16 of Art Every Day.
Song: Promises, by Fugazi
A reader of my blog emailed and asked if I would do a self-portrait for Art Every Day. She was interested in what song I would choose to with the photo and what kind of photo I would take.
I don't do self-portraits too often. There's a few here and there, but they are over processed and I don't really like any of them. It's just the way I am. Uncomfortable with how I look on film. But I really wanted to do this self portrait thing, simply because I immediately knew what song I would use. So I threw in Fugazi's 13 Songs CD on the way home from work, skipped to the last song and started singing. When I got to my favorite part, I knew I had my photo set up.
Go where you think you want to go
Do everything you were sent here for
Fire at will if you hear that call
Touch your hand to the wall at night
That's been my mantra for a while. The whole song -to me - is about not letting your life be led by other people's promises to you. Because, well, promises are shit. Go out there and do something. Be something. Be someone. Don't hang yourself on someone who isn't going to do and be those things with you, or allow you to be them, or want you to be them.
The photo is processed this way for a reason. The light part represents everything that's out there waiting. In the dark, there's the hand against the wall - a reassurance. A safe place. Touching base with home because it's a bit scary to walk out there alone, walk away from relative comfort, to find something else.
Everyone gets something different out of a song. That's what I get from this one, and this is the photo I got from all that.
This has been your introspection for the evening. Carry on.
update: I decided that i hate this photo. I totally bailed on doing anything really creative tonight. It's Friday and I'm spent.
When you touch the seed pods of these flowers they suddenly explode. They never fail to make me jump, even though I am expecting the pop.
Apparently they are an invasive species here in North America. But they don't much get in the way around these parts.