I received an email not long ago and wanted to elaborate on my answer here, because I feel certain that someone else is facing a similar problem. I know I have and will again. Here is what some of the email said: “I was told the other day that I should start to produce some other art: being aware of not getting to comfortable with my style, that I am always doing dark stuff and should do something else. I…
I remember the first picture I ever took. A clone shot where I put myself in the image twice. It took more than a day to complete. I cried a lot out of frustration. I don’t like not knowing how to do something. My husband helped a lot. The amount of times he explained the eraser tool in Photoshop was ridiculous. I remember the first time I posted on social media. I uploaded five pictures. I didn’t know how it…
Getting to know your process is so key in understand how and why you create. After all, the finished picture is a representation of all the time and energy you put into creating it. It stands for more than the finished concept; it stands for your process. For me, a lot of great images are ones where the process is not wholly apparent, where you look and wonder how they achieved a certain look. Whether it is a Gregory Crewdson…
What if we lived every day as though we were writing a new page in a book? Has your story already started? How will you continue it? What messages do you want it to convey? What is your character like? Where does it take place? What conflicts do you run into? What makes you sing with joy? The simple fact is that most people don’t see their lives as a story. So many people sit back and let life happen…
What I love most about creating is, after a certain time, the separation that happens between Artist and Work. We step back, we see what we’ve done from a whole new perspective, and we are able to understand something different – more – about ourselves. Creating is always personal, whether we are taking inspiration from our lives or not. It represents who we are – or were – and translates that into a tangible, universal symbol. We see ourselves in…