Tulsa State Fair – The area behind the midway and outside the big expo building is a great place to see spaces and people in unexpected juxtapositions.
But don’t go there if you have a sensitive nose. It truly stinks!
This is part of a week long posting showing a series I did way back in the 80’s where
I combined photographs of body impressions on top of Impressionist paintings.
This is one of Vince and I. My part of it was taken after wearing a bathing suit
under my pants for an entire day in anticipation of going swimming, which never
happened. When I got back to the hotel with my wife and took off my clothes I had
this incredible impression on my stomach from the elastic and asked her to take a
photo of it since it was so funny looking.
This was the first photo I took about impressions actually, though it wasn’t until I
took a sandal strap impression a few years later that I figured out the connection to
the impressionist paintings.
Stop sign #8 – It costs too much.
Answer: What is it you can’t afford? A point and shoot camera? A computer?
Transportation? Membership fees? Be creative, find a camera at a pawn shop, or a
resale shop. If you can’t afford a new computer, once again, find a refurbished one.
Maybe trade services for what you need. You don’t have to go anywhere to create
interesting photos, you have yourself as a subject, and you don’t have to travel to
get there do you? You have your home, your yard, your sidewalk, your street signs.
I realized by having children that we are all capable of saying we don’t have the
time or the money to do something. But I found out that without exception my children
almost always found a way to do the things they REALLY wanted to do. That usually
did not include cleaning out the garage with dad, so in that case they had too much
homework. But a call from a friend to go to the movies, well, in that case, they
realized they could do their homework when they got home, or in the morning. In
other words, they WANTED to go to the movies, and found a way.
In other words, don’t say ‘I can’t afford it’. Say instead ‘HOW can I afford it?’
and go out and find the way.
Do you WANT to be a photographer, an artist, a creative person? Then you WILL find a
way and you will not use excuses.
The Rejection Suite – A new week, a new series of old. This one is my ‘rejection letter’ series. I applied
for full-time, college level teaching jobs in fine art for approximately 8 years, from
1985-1993. I never did land that job. I started to take the rejection letters and
collage some of my rejected photos on top of the letter. I let show through from the
letter a word or series of words that had power and meaning out of context.
