April 30, 2018

When making creative imagery do you use your instinct to find a subject of interest?  Or are you interested in the images you saw at a certain location in a magazine and if you could travel to those sites you wouldn't create images but take the standard replica that you had seen.  

Image creation is more than just blitzing a scene and feeling lucky when one image turns out ok.  

Coming upon a scene with potential promise of creating good images, one begins spreading seeds hoping that one of the seeds spawns an image of enough potential to make the shotgun approach work half heartily.

Spreading seed over a yard creates  a greenness that is uniform and similar to all the other lawns on your block.  Even though if you dig deeper into the lawn you will find that each stem of grass is unique in it's own way.  

The preconceived image is like creating a mirror image of what you are used to seeing in books and on your hand held devices.  In your mind you have seen a subject you want to copy.  With no imagination to change the scene to fit your unique perspective.

In order to create images with purpose come to your subject without preconceptions.  Of course the mind is alert to visual stimulus, the intellect loves to play it safe with routine numbers and motion replicated.  But the mind is alert and present and waiting to be told what to do.  Not by the conservative restraints from your childhood but an openness and a freedom of expression that is your personal internal landscape.  

Your personal accumulation of experience seen through the formula's of space, shapes, motion and duration excite the intuition to pause, to wait for that unique moment that creates an art piece that is truly your vision.

Through the method of using intuition, the focusing of perception not on the daily repetitive routines but your own inner vision, your own alertness to subjects that intrigue you and will challenge you to find in them your own reflections through the creation of photographs.

You will find places that inspire you, that call to you, that demand your attention to create images.  This environment is conducive to your inner being giving you inspiration to seek and look deeper into the place of origin and explore again and again its newness to your refreshing study in intuitive expressions.

Not to weaken and get caught up on the forward pressure of time to let go of your unique opportunity you are exploring.

You must have stamina to fight through the periphery nonsense and get to a point where you can create images without the constant chatter of fashion demanding you to exploit the scene with repetitious copies of a once unique subject that is not yours to begin with. 

The structured path is always moving us away from our intuitive being.  Shunning the unknown with the crippling conservative mentality of demanding conformity.  We retreat in the fear of defeat and we retreat from unique insights replaced by the droll necessity of demanding control of our senses, our perceptions of wonder and our unique place in this super hyper ego representations we are now being exploited by.


Overwhelming projections of thoughts to future events creates a glance at your purpose but limits your ability to focus on your inner core, your inner intuition.  Accepting the visually desensitizing you are experiencing through your influx of surrounding stimulus limits your ability to concentrate and open up your relationships with the world you need to create.

We seem to long for exquisite deceit, the purpose forgotten as one reverts back to their animal instincts.  Life drifting with subtle turns leading us close enough to feel the original perception to a path not chosen, a path that could create an awareness of external deceptions that limit and inhibit your unique personal perspective.

We should be always looking for the impossible subject.  One that is hidden to the casual eye but through intuitive concentration it is revealed to the eyes that are open to new ways of expressing the tired voice played over and over again..

You must be taken away mentally and physically by your chosen subject.  How do you know if this is the one subject your were looking for?  When time dissolves away and hours pass as if they were seconds.  Then you know you were connected, really connected to your inner perceptions.  Only then can you create an image worthy of your efforts.