moving away from the familiar

so it has been a long week. i promise to start blogging more from now on, and to put up current thesis work. i just need to get in the habit again…

a little tangent about thesis work recently though… as of lately I have been frustrated. And not the kind of frustrated that you get when you don’t want to take a test or write a paper, but the complete soul-draining, angry-making, about ready to throw in the towel kind of frustration. And honestly, the midterm presentations just intensified that. But as of this morning, thanks to a great conversation with P, I have finally found clarity. The video series is complete, or very near completion, and I see that this is what G, P, and J have been trying to show me for a while now. I am ready to move on from the video work, and honeslty am quite relieved, as I hit a very large wall a few weeks ago, and couldn’t quite find my way up or around it.

So I am saying goodbye to video… as least for now. Now it is the time for me to let me photographs take over for a while, which they have pretty much been begging to do since April. The weather is perfect for me right now in Sewanee to start photographing: foggy, haunting, and absolutely beautiful. I am excited. Finally. Which is both relieving and nerve-wracking, as I have spent the past 7 months on a body of work that I was confident in creating. And now it is time to start again.

I will keep posting on the progression of this new work. I am staying here over fall break, so Im hoping to get a lot of time in for shooting and printing… maybe even a hike here and there.