With watercolor, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow sifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a window pane. Watercolor perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.
I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
We all play characters, but it's really united on the ensemble concept. Everybody is always telling a story. Even if you're just standing there holding a chair, you are the person narrating, or the person acting out the narration.
While digital photography has removed the previous time consuming tasks of developing film and making prints in the darkroom, it now requires many more hours of culling, selecting and editing until only a very few photographs have been distilled from the hundreds shot during a session.
(Professional) photographers are like Hookers: at first we started doing it because we liked it and it felt good, then we kept doing it but only for our friends, and NOW we're still doing it but are charging money for doing it!
From whence arrived the praying mantis?
From outer space, or lost Atlantis?
glimpse the grin, green metal mug
at masks the pseudo-saintly bug,
Orthopterous, also carnivorous,
And faintly whisper, Lord deliver us.
Creativity with portraits involves the invocation of a state of rapport when only a camera stands between two people...mutual vulnerability and mutual trust.
- Minor White, Mirrors, messages, manifestations by Minor White