Canvas to the Imagination

Poor neglected photo blog. I just don’t much feel like making use of you these days. Maybe some changes should be made so you’ll be more interesting to me.

There is a group self-portraiture project on flickr called 365 Days, and it is providing me with a bit of inspiration. The Challenge: to take 365 different self-portraits over the course of a year and upload one per day to Flickr. Though not interested in doing such a thing EVERY DAY, I would like to take selfportraits more often than I have been. I’ve always found them to be an interesting challenge to do creatively, and it helps me learn a little bit about myself. I’ve decided to set a goal of taking a selfportrait every week and a half because working on a small project is always a good way to stay inspired. The above shot is the first in the series.

Five lovely moments from the week:
1) Walking alone through the deserted back streets of my neighbourhood as a light snow was falling. The silence and peace of the evening was stunningly beautiful.
2) A wonderfully productive day of working on my art.
3) Lying on the floor in front of a fire as conversations went on around me.
4) A delicious dinner with a friend at a restaurant I love, and the long varied conversation afterwards.
5) The anticipation of reading through the small pile of books I picked up at the library earlier this week.

Today I am spending some time reviewing my work, trying to figure out what I should do with cradle frames I bought to do heat transfers upon. It’s a good opportunity to create new work, but at the same time I’m torn because I’d like to use some older stuff that hasn’t been shown before.

I found the above image as I was going through my digital collage work, and decided to post it here. I think it may be the strangest self-portrait I’ve done because it is so abstract. I have a love/hate feeling about it because, though I like bits and pieces of the image, I’m not entirely convinced it works well as a whole.