i first began studying photography in 2001. before that i never took pictures, i wrote. i wrote for a weekly newspaper. i wrote poetry. i tried to write several novels and failed abysmally. i think 30 pages was as far as i ever got. i wrote daily in many, many journals. i usually had at least two or three going at one time because i am a sucker for beautiful notebooks. i can't stop myself from buying them. in short, i was drowning in words.
then photography came along. no words. no thoughts. just vision, sensation, reaction, liberation. i was freed from the confines of my brain and i expanded into the universe. i was instantly hooked on this wordless world, and i have followed photography's quiet path with great joy for the past 10+ years.
over those years i have continued to write, but in short, quickly jotted sentences... ideas, thoughts, observations, quotes... no long, analytical pages of developed reasoning. i think, perhaps, this absence of words, of deep thought, has prevented my photography from growing and evolving as i would like it to. i think it may be time for me to bring words into my photography practice. and this from a woman who abhors artist statements.
i believe words and images can work together to the benefit of both. that's why i've chosen this image, Intersecting Paths. this blog will afford me the opportunity to test this hypothesis. stay tuned. things could get interesting around here.
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