This week I have been mostly engaging in diversionary tactics, to take my mind of the confusion of the church project. I did attend a quiz night at the church, we , somehow , came third, everyone else was clearly as useless as we were, but it was a pleasant evening.
I also had some photos developed that I took last year and had shelved. Now they have been developed I understand why I had left them ….yawn. It has made me think again about that ‘go nowhere’ project , another handy diversion. I had said that I would return to it in the winter, so perhaps I will.
Something both the church project and this has made me think about is whether I have a problem with people, (photographing them, engaging with them in general) which is very odd. Prior to my degree i worked as an IT trainer, talking for a living, for goodness sake, so why is engagement a problem now, on an artistic basis? This makes it sound as though I cannot photograph people which thinking back is obviously not the case as previous projects have proved. so why a problem now? is it because I am going down a path which wasn’t in my original plan? am I embarassed by my artistic-ness?
looking back, the projects that I think have been the most successful are the solitary ones, just me and the camera. maybe this is what I should stick to .
