In 2020 I participated in an on-line (zoom) creativity course with Doug Chinery and Valda Bailey. We were set a project.
We were given the choice of four project titles, two were single words the others, phrases. I was automatically drawn to the phrases, and one in particular. One of the single word projects was ‘Home’ and was a project I was already taking photos for that started at the beginning of lockdown. I discarded that idea. The other single word was ‘Emotion’ and without any second thought, I dismissed it.
I started taking images. On looking at the images on the back of the camera they sparked ‘emotions’, I smiled and carried on. Having shot maybe four initial studies I downloaded them to the computer and the ‘Emotion’ Word nudged me again. I then began to be aware of emotions in other images that I had already taken.
Here is my Project, I did not choose it - it choose me.
“Save my love through lonelinessSave my love for sorrowI’m given you my onlinessCome give your tomorrow”- Tim Harding
“My mind went blank with grief and despair”- Park Chung-hee
“The dream is being folded up in front of me by ‘hard hands’, keeping the dream away from me. Moving me into the daylight hours”- Barry Badcock
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe”- Marcus Aurelius
“The world is on fire. I am afraid, but there is hope - a ray of hope in the blue distance”- Barry Badcock
“What you put into life is what you get out of it”- Clint Eastwood
“Trust yourself do the things that only you know best”Trust Yourself - Bob DylanWe used to play this game of trust in the Scouts - you would stand above your friends close your eyes and fall back into their arms
“With every eye upon you, every breath held in anticipation, you hold in your hands a world waiting to be shaped”- Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
