I have a concept, Image. Mais!
After struggling for weeks, or more like months, to find the concept to base a photography series on, I have finally found it.
It's something I thought about before, this one phrase that I've wanted to be the title, because I'm in love, or rather obsessed, with the ancient concept of a Muse. A Moment with the Muse.
For most of my memories with this Muse, both pleasant and agonizing, are just one moment in time, are just a few seconds, even milliseconds. Drops in the intangible sea we call time.
And now that I have this idea, what do I do? How do I go about creating it?
I want to recreate the moments that are lodged in my brain like bullets. For such a personal project, though, I'm planning on using myself as a model. I want it to all be black and white, high key. I plan to use two of myself, that is, juxtapose two photos taken with the camera on a tripod. The reason I want to do this..."Come here, Image". We are in love with concepts, not people. We are in love with the idealistic reflection of ourselves we see in their beautiful eyes. Image...je t'aime.
I know the basic technical things I want to do, for the most part. And how to explain it conceptually. My problem is, going through memories and choosing ones that I can actually shoot. I can't shoot in the Muse's room or house, though many memories reside there. I can't shoot in his car. I can't shoot at the coffee shops we visited when there was no where else to go. How do I recreate these memories, the feeling of these memories, these moments with the Muse, mon image, without wandering around and begging to take photos in places I may not be able to go again? Without showing my obsession (as many people prefer to call it) to him? Without invading other people's privacy, who decide to have their coffee outside and don't want to be photographed? What will tie these images together conceptually, that is, how will they have a common formal element or prop? Other than being double. Other than being high key. How?
I want a critique. I want a bashing or a praise, about concept and form. I want suggestions. AND
Have you ever had a Muse? What was that person or animal or place or thing like? How did it feel?
What are your memories.
Please advise. <3
It's something I thought about before, this one phrase that I've wanted to be the title, because I'm in love, or rather obsessed, with the ancient concept of a Muse. A Moment with the Muse.
For most of my memories with this Muse, both pleasant and agonizing, are just one moment in time, are just a few seconds, even milliseconds. Drops in the intangible sea we call time.
And now that I have this idea, what do I do? How do I go about creating it?
I want to recreate the moments that are lodged in my brain like bullets. For such a personal project, though, I'm planning on using myself as a model. I want it to all be black and white, high key. I plan to use two of myself, that is, juxtapose two photos taken with the camera on a tripod. The reason I want to do this..."Come here, Image". We are in love with concepts, not people. We are in love with the idealistic reflection of ourselves we see in their beautiful eyes. Image...je t'aime.
I know the basic technical things I want to do, for the most part. And how to explain it conceptually. My problem is, going through memories and choosing ones that I can actually shoot. I can't shoot in the Muse's room or house, though many memories reside there. I can't shoot in his car. I can't shoot at the coffee shops we visited when there was no where else to go. How do I recreate these memories, the feeling of these memories, these moments with the Muse, mon image, without wandering around and begging to take photos in places I may not be able to go again? Without showing my obsession (as many people prefer to call it) to him? Without invading other people's privacy, who decide to have their coffee outside and don't want to be photographed? What will tie these images together conceptually, that is, how will they have a common formal element or prop? Other than being double. Other than being high key. How?
I want a critique. I want a bashing or a praise, about concept and form. I want suggestions. AND
Have you ever had a Muse? What was that person or animal or place or thing like? How did it feel?
What are your memories.
Please advise. <3