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"Have you ever experienced one of those moments that you'd like to capture in a sepia tone photograph? A moment that seems to hold so much and reveal so much about a person that it is impossible to see it all in the split second it lasts. It comes and goes so quickly that you are forced to place it among all the other moments of life, and slowly you build an album of photographs and movies that should be in color and high quality sound...but you keep them in sepia tone and silent movie form because somehow that makes the moment more significant, timeless, and full of wisdom.
How does that form make the moment more significant? Has history so far only been made up of black-and-white and sepia tone photos? All your personally significant moments seem even more historical and meaningful when you store them in these seemingly colorless forms. The absence of color makes you look at the details - things you might not normally notice because you are distracted by the vivid reds, blues, yellows, and greens. But somehow this absence of literal color and emphasis on shape illuminates the metaphorical colors of life: the shape of someone's eyes may communicate dark, sad colors or warm, loving colors; the wrinkles softening someone's mouth or brow communicate joyous, bright colors or dark colors of hardship.
You will find, however, that it becomes difficult to hold so many photographs and movies in the album of your mind. Things start to seep into your own day to day life, and you begin to absorb the history behind someone's wrinkled brow or round, loving eyes into your own history - you find yourself absorbing the history of all the people you have ever captured in a sepia tone photograph. Eventually, you have to pick and choose between the moments you already have and the new moments that continue to flash before your eyes. You must retain those which teach you the most about someone you love or teach you the most about the wisdom of life in order to keep hold of your own self. You have to learn from your own collection of sepia tone photographs, but also remember to learn from the sepia tone photographs that people take of you - the moments that you create and are significant to someone else - and see how you can learn from your own colors of life that are elucidated by the way you hold your hands or by the strand of hair sweeping under your jaw."
-11:00 pmish
How does that form make the moment more significant? Has history so far only been made up of black-and-white and sepia tone photos? All your personally significant moments seem even more historical and meaningful when you store them in these seemingly colorless forms. The absence of color makes you look at the details - things you might not normally notice because you are distracted by the vivid reds, blues, yellows, and greens. But somehow this absence of literal color and emphasis on shape illuminates the metaphorical colors of life: the shape of someone's eyes may communicate dark, sad colors or warm, loving colors; the wrinkles softening someone's mouth or brow communicate joyous, bright colors or dark colors of hardship.
You will find, however, that it becomes difficult to hold so many photographs and movies in the album of your mind. Things start to seep into your own day to day life, and you begin to absorb the history behind someone's wrinkled brow or round, loving eyes into your own history - you find yourself absorbing the history of all the people you have ever captured in a sepia tone photograph. Eventually, you have to pick and choose between the moments you already have and the new moments that continue to flash before your eyes. You must retain those which teach you the most about someone you love or teach you the most about the wisdom of life in order to keep hold of your own self. You have to learn from your own collection of sepia tone photographs, but also remember to learn from the sepia tone photographs that people take of you - the moments that you create and are significant to someone else - and see how you can learn from your own colors of life that are elucidated by the way you hold your hands or by the strand of hair sweeping under your jaw."
-11:00 pmish