listen.
"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?"
- Still Life with Mockingbird by Tom Robbins
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I write this tentatively because I know myself too well and recognize that if I start something like this again, I wont let myself leave it unfinished.
I have decided to start another 365 project.
With that said, the series may differ slightly from my last one and I may include photos that simply document the day instead of a self portrait. This may be less conceptual.
I was remembering how I felt throughout the project I completed several years ago and how motivated it made me. I had no idea the simple act of having to take a picture each day for one year, of fully committing myself to a project, would influence other areas of my life. I love that I can look through that series and remember all I went through. I also grew tremendously in skill level and I'd like to grow even further.
As I did when I started the first, I thought about where I will be If I complete this project-I will be a second semester senior in college at the end. That thought is terrifying but all the more reason to give this a shot. Last time I was about to graduate highschool; it was a massive undertaking and now I am once again at a huge stepping stone in my life as I grow closer to the end of my college career. I want to try and capture that process.
On another note, know that I am in a very different place than I was when I last did this. I have grown up in a lot of ways and fallen back in others but I do know that I have become less "enchanted" with the internet world than I once was. That's part of the reason why I chose not to start another 365 project until now-I was simply worn out from spending so much time online as silly as that sounds but it was my life.
Now on the other hand, I have been touched by so many people who follow my work. The amount of stories I have read from people who have been influenced by my photos is priceless. I started taking photos because I wanted to relate to people and that bit hasn't changed. I want to do this as much for me as for those who gain something/anything from my photos. I want to motivate, touch, connect with, help, and relate to as many people as I can and if it means starting another journey like this then so be it.
So here's to an effort.
Here's to project 365 year 2.
Woo!!
Like always: listen.
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and you're away.
listen please.
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oh holy this is what i am feeling right now.
as my senior year approaches, the questions are beginning to come.
and i want to stop everything and climb up top the tallest mountain i can find and just fall.
not to harm myself, i just want to feel everything.
i want to feel all my senses screaming in those few moments and then i want to bottle that sensation up and save it for whenever i need to be reminded why i do what i do.
right now, all i want to do is take pictures and write, and read and draw because i love the way it feels.
i am so passionate about it all.
everything. every single thing.
i love taking photographs and i love telling stories.
and it is through these things that i want passion to burst from my eyes, my hands, my feet, everywhere.
and i want to get to that point where if i am asked any sort of question about my future, i will answer:
"i am going to do whatever i am passionate about.
and if i get tired of that, i will go out and search for something even more exhilarating to lose my breath in.
i crave it all.
that's exactly where i want to be and precisely where i am headed."
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