A Recap

[poliphilo]

Lets try again.

When I was walking round Ashton the other day taking photographs I went into a light trance where everything I came accross- tired mothers pushing strollers, boarded up buildings, graffiti-covered bus stops- seemed wonderfully interesting and significant and beautiful. It was as if I were seeing beneath the skin of things.

Inevitably the pictures I took didn't convey much of this (though one or two of them were OK).

You can't photograph a state of mind.

But that's what I was on about yesterday when I was saying ugliness equals beauty.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I understand. the poem I wrote last Friday was like that. And the thing about that is that it was WRITTEN, I didn't have a computer to sit down at and 'type' it. It was like it wrote itself...even if no one else likes it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a great feeling when you step back from something you've just produced and think, "did I do that?"

BTW thank you for drawing my attention to that poem. I somehow seem to have missed it first time round. I especially like the bit about the "familiar".

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Thank YOU for letting me toot my own horn in your lj. I seem to be very self absorbed, lately.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And what's wrong with that?

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Been told all my life I'm 'selfish' and want "attention"...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ha, yes, I recognise that one- it was my parents' favourite tactic for keeping me in my place.