Thursday Thoughts A Selbe 9.3.09 Time to go shoot

I've been researching some different things and reading some articles on anxieties and stress. Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension or fear. I'm sure that everyone has experienced these feels at one time or another. For me, i experience feelings of anxiety more often than i think i should. What makes me feel anxious or nervous is when I am in a large group of people, a really loud place, when i'm with people i am not comfortable with. I cannot act normal when i experience these feelings, i turn inward and try to find a way out of the situation. It is not easy to shake off the feeling.

I want to express this feeling through photographing things that make me anxious. I want to take still images and some that are blurred to see what different effects and feelings i can make with the images. I am still going to start making diptchs. I have some visual ideas to start with and i plan to go out on sunday to shoot all day.

I started reading a little about meditation in different cultures. It did not take long for me to find one quote that sparks inspiration and ideas in me. The quote:

"to seperate their conscious minds from their physical bodies."

Ok so it is not a groundbreaking inspring quote but when i read it i realized that anxiety is grounded in the mind. This sparked the idea of the mind being the place for peace. It really maade me think of different ways i can orient a diptych. I feel it doesnt have to be two photos side by side. It can be an image with a square cut out the middle and another photo placed in it. Kind of like a box in a box is what im thinking. or it can be one photo above another, like the mind above the body.

So here's my plan for shooting in a nutshell. I am going to shoot both things that calm me and things that make me anxious. I am going to find different ways to create chaos in the images of thing that make me nervous. And i am going to find interesting ways in intergrate the two images together in a diptych.

I've been searching for artists or images to help inspire me with this project, but i haven't found anything that is really clicking with the ideas in my head. I found this image on flickr.com and i thought it was great. just the message in the text on the poll. Maybe thats the message i should try to send with my diptychs... its something else to experiment with. Sometimes inspirations comes from simple snapshots and not from the well know artist.

Unknown, Unknown artist and date. Sourced from Google Images