May 15, 2019

In image creation there is a mysterious force brewing as one finds that documenting his/her life and where they have travelled is more important than just experiencing those moments by just being present in the scene. The camera between you and your subject is a great hindrance in creating great images. Your obsession with taking pictures of everything before you, without a since of your latent visual organizing power, creates a haphazard journey of images without a theme, images without character, images taken as random footprints of where you were but never showing what you really saw of importance to your inner self, that can move you and excite you to create an image by using your unique perspective.

What most people seem to believe is that taking photos is being present in their moments, but it really distances them, with a camera in front of their face, creating a barrier to the experience present in that moment, ignored by an addiction to present oneself in snap shots on social media rather than becoming immersed in the scene with your visual unique sensitivity.

One image created with intuitive force and with feeling can express everything you felt deeply and experienced in that one frame, one timeless exposure that you became intimately connected with.  And there was nothing else you needed except your visual awareness of what the scene was revealing to your inner presence.

In creating images you must be present in your unique moments, allowing time to experience and appreciate the scene that is beginning to develop, as you connect on an intuitive level with the physical space before you. If you don't have a concentrated focus to be present in the developing scene why are you there in the first place. 

To allow yourself the confusion of continuous distractions brings your level of creativity to a complete halt. We are so caught up in social media it is becoming a true detriment to a healthy perceptive mind, an individual seeing. If we believe that the external world is set in a rigid normality, a universal perception of conformity, and this is all we have to look forward to in this endless distracting minutia of inconsequential personalities and backyard images of food, then we are doomed to live lives of mediocrity and we will never reach our own unique individual point of view, with our own defiance of the standard composition, of a controlled life, a life whose present and future is determined by someone else, whose future is anger and frustration at what we should have become, our own unique point of view. To become you, you first must know yourself.

We take in each second of the day, an easily digestive series of images and surface words that never give us a deeper understanding of the lives we are forced to become. 

 

Why are we so blatantly opposite of our own personalities. Our own inner core of purpose and observation of these shallow moments that are constantly bombarding our visual senses. 

This redundant, repetitive sleep walking in our physical presence is a learned conditioning we received through our early years and made us afraid to think for ourselves. To have faith in our own unique perceptions.

If we open ourselves, our minds to this world, the only world we will ever know, you can begin to immerse yourself in the nature of being present and aware of the infinite choices you have in creating an image from your inner unique perspective. You must look deeply into the black void of your mindful necessity of adaption and begin to free your genuine universal presence, an independent thought. That can reach deep into the depths of your uniqueness that has been chained to a known formula of obedient actions instilled in you, the fear of choice. 

One must perceive himself in his own unique actions. If he doesn't see and feel his own complexity of information then he is unaware of societies deliberate means to control all behavior.  This fast paste life we live is a construct of known origin. It is the business mind, the hypocrisy of social justice, making you feel that you are behind and you must work faster and harder in order to reap the benefits of your actions. All along your actions are limited and determined by the industrial pollution of this planet for profit. 

The exhaustion we feel at the end of our work day, slaving to make enough to feed our children and maybe just, maybe a little more to celebrate a dinner out.

Think about your choices that lead you to this present moment. Did you seek this path with excitement and vigor, soaking in all the books and all the seminars that you could attend in order to gain a better perspective on the decisions you will have to make. Or did you accept your future, allowing others to dictate to you who you would become. 

 

Were you defeated in your quest for individuality by fearing your responsibility to become more than just words repeated by parents and friends, a surface reflection of your repetitive inability to challenge the status quo, your journey to hide from your uniqueness and follow anothers rules without questioning their validity. Allowing someone elses perspective to become  your truth and you assumed your defeated acceptance of a road you thought was unique, that you would never have taken if you were aware of your unique inner being.

Your insightfulness into your own inner explorations becoming aware through intuitive discoveries of an external facade that is illusive and domineering is the beginning journey you will have to make as you delve deeper into the earthly formations, the facades of untruth, that will guide you to your inner revelations present only to those that can see beyond the structured deceptive limiting manipulations.

When you are creating images you are in complete control of your composition. Your perspective is unique and it is demanding a vision that will express your inner world.  These created images sometimes are very simple to make. There is flow and movement of your mind that enters the scene and and quickly understand the landscape before you and moves you to a point of interest that summarizes the scene in your unique perspective. Other times you come to a scene and you must stop and reflect deeply with your inner intuition to find a path that brings you to a place that first enhances your initial visual thought and unfolds the nature of the scene so you can enter it with a knowing of your unique intuitive voice giving you a revelation of a landscape you could have missed if you were in a state of anxious departure.  

We all want to find the perfect expression of the scene before us. What has drawn us to this place in this moment under these lighting conditions. We could accept our initial perception, shoot the image and then move on to the next best thing or we could stand in the presence of nature’s beauty and relax and breath in the atmosphere of the landscape and bond with the scene on a deeper level.  

By having the patience to wait and not start blitzing the scene with frame after frame hoping for a lucky composition and exposure you will be immersed in your subject, a communion of body and soul and the image expressed from this intimate bonding will be your inner world externalized for all to see.

Freedom of choice is the mantra of an independent self becoming a perceptive visionary of their inner world becoming externalized. Your visual development, your freedom, is to express your inner world with external details, your intellect will want to categorize and label your approach as a structured repetition of other’s thoughts and composition. That is not what a true artist does. A true artist expresses his inner world with his truthful interpretation of his inner life. We may not fully grasp his intent but his unique perceptions are worth the trouble of studying.  His unique vision expressed through image creation is a personal revelation of his uniqueness. 

We can’t express our true selves without looking deeper into the structured environment we are born into. The controlling forces of this world are moneyed interests that do not look for revelations of the spirit but a conformity of the spirit to work and slave for the few that keep a tight lid on their extravagant nature that consumes them. 

Don’t narrow your visual experience to a set of images already known, explore and experiment with your perceptive nature and create a unique vision that only you can express.
When creating personal images we need to research where we are going. What is there to stimulate us into creating our unique vision.  We never want to copy the image brochure that can guide us to reinvent the images shown through your own creative nature.

May 6, 2019

The image present in the environment is not real, your interest in this particular field of sensory data is your inner vision eliminating the contraband of the landscape that are not part of your unique perception.  You are becoming selective in your photographic expression, listening to your intuition, seeing deeper into the external reality realizing this outer realm is not your reality for you see through your own inner sight, realizing you are now able to see in a unique visual sensation, by being present in this moment and not taking images because of a memory or a visual copy of something you saw before. Your unique vision is becoming a revelation in the external world of your inner being.

Your visual sensations are only a reflection, these visions have the making of a unique personality but it is a copy of your internal self projected outward that provides the authenticity of your inner expressions.

And even then your transition from your inner perspective to outer form is still not a representation of self but only details arranged that were perceived and made valuable by the composition of the outer reality that surrounds you. No one can really see your inner world without a visual artist projecting herself/himself beyond the tethers of personal confinement. 

You must fight through the conformity of beings herded together, labeled and accepting of their unrelenting conformity to dull ideas and perceptions that claim them and not vise-versa. Their perceptions are dull mimicking of someone elses vision. They are afraid to step beyond their neatly settled intellect that has them on a short rope of confining thoughts and simple repetitions.

To express your inner self takes courage and the ability to see past the nay sayers and to evolve through your inner core feelings and ideas, to experiment with and try all avenues that will lead you closer to your own individual style.

You must shed your ego and its ability to deceive you into believing your talent is rich with individuality when you haven't yet experienced the full impact of intuitive perceptions.

The intellect likes unity in perceptions not a unique view of the world. The intellect likes redundancy and repetition for it hates to have to think for itself and become something more than just a recording but an actual individual self.

Don't be fooled by your first learning impressions, in youth and later in work, of the structured reality we live in today. 

Fear reins supreme in the greed fest we live in today. The insatiable appetite to control the worlds viewpoint by wealth for the wealthy. Our lives not our own. We are told what to feel and what to become. Not our own uniqueness but instead a pawn in someone elses game of take and control.  Confusion is a hallmark of the intellect's manipulation and it affects ones perception of the world and how you perceive yourself in it.

We lie on the surface of our expressions, limiting us to repeat what has already been deemed worthy and has been copied billions of times each day, each second.  Don't believe in yourself but an outside force of corruption and greed.

You must strengthen your inner being to fight the powerful forces of imitation. Seeking your unique perspective takes a deep seeded need to be yourself and a deep faith that what you are creating in your visual art is unique, it is you uniting your inner world with the outer world. And in that unity you will find balance.

For to be your own person you must claim yourself and your own unique artistic expression.

You must fight off the controlling voices trying to over analyze each work of art as if it was on an operating room table being dissected for no other purpose than for the ego of the critics. Ignore those that want everything to conform to a simple equation of follow the leader.

You must work hard to have a unique vision where others appreciate it or not. You create because you have an inner drive to see yourself externalized and not for the purpose of approval. When you make a photograph with substantial uniqueness then you have found a focus that slows down the flow of time and makes you aware of the myriad of possibilities present but you see with determination, of insight and you begin focusing your attention on the details of the scene that represented your internal intuition, that made a connection with your subject, that allowed you to perceive the important details in the scene that expressed your visual purpose.

We seek our reflections in society, the in-crowd, a popularity contest being scene but not represented.  We imitate what we desire, what we think will become our true existence, our true personality, our truth.

The snap shot becoming art. A moment of reflection in a scene we passed without any thought of becoming deeply connected with the external influence of a mobile reality constantly in flux. We don’t see beyond the created structure that determines our factual existence. 

We adapt our senses to conform to the existing formula's of living in someone elses present moments, forced to anticipate our actions in a ritual of repeating motions, feelings and dull inner values and we call this movement in time our reality in a constant quagmire but we try and tame it, control it and thus become a pawn in a bad play with our words dictated to us without the freedom of a unique thought and an original expression of our truthful presence.

We are fearful of our potential. Afraid of what we will create. Our potential never realized because we accepted our physical presence as a means of success. We lost contact with our intuitive-self that demanded a strong voice from our inner being to overcome the demanding voice of the herds mentality. Living in fear of our uniqueness we stumbled and accepted the unimportance of our individual life so we buried our faith in ourselves for the meaningless dribble of medias hideous distractions.