Photography has betrayed me.
It’s given me an out under the facade of going in.
It’s become an emotional to do list too long to ever conquer.
Just as I brain dump my ideas and to do tasks onto a paper in an effort for relief and fake accountability, I take pictures when I’m seeing something that feels too much, thinking- I’ll feel this later.
My friend asked me the other day in response to my photographic frustration- “can’t that moment be enough? The thisness of that moment and why you photographed it?”- can’t it be whole on it’s own without feeling like there’s a further emotional processing that needs to happen?
It was such a wonderful question that felt like buoyant possibility.
And I immediately felt the answer I didn't want...nope.
Today I ask you one of the most important questions anyone can be asked in life- the same question that revealed my sophisticated subconscious self sabotage that made me consider putting the camera down for a while.
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