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

[kaysho.livejournal.com]

That is a wonderful state of mind ... when you walk past a tree and notice one leaf, the pattern of the veins, the variations in the colour, contemplate the quiet beauty of the one little spot where a worm had lunch ... and everyone around you thinks you're batty when you call them over and say, "Look at this leaf! Look at this leaf!".

Of course, if we were that way all the time, we'd never get anything done. :)