You know, I am really excited about this 2Weeker. The broadness of the challenge means that all of us can take this idea and run with it. In my humble opinion, doing something creative doesn't have to be a big THING. Sure, you can say, "I will now sit down at my work space and spear several limes on a stick as a statement about globalization." Or "I will now write several stanzas of rhyming verse about my commute." But you can also be like me and say, "I will now lie on my bed and mess around with Photoshop pretending to be artsy."
So, I found some love letters in a box on the street yesterday. (I KNOW!) I read them, obviously, and enjoyed; one line kind of struck me as funny and/or poetic, and I kept saying it to myself. So I plopped it onto one of my recent photos and thought for a while about what it could all mean. "The arctic could not be whiter." Than what? The line after it as written made no sense, so I won't even bore you with it. Let's be honest: nothing is pure white, not even the arctic!! Snow gathers dust; polar bears are kind of yellow tinged; white walls get handprints on them in seconds (the walls of art galleries are painted practically monthly, I've learned); and "white" people are actually pink. I think this photo speaks to that a bit with the crumpled white piece of paper and the decaying white painted lines on the bridge.
Enjoy! And other interpretations welcome. Heck, you could even count a comment as your 2week creativity for the day.
So, I found some love letters in a box on the street yesterday. (I KNOW!) I read them, obviously, and enjoyed; one line kind of struck me as funny and/or poetic, and I kept saying it to myself. So I plopped it onto one of my recent photos and thought for a while about what it could all mean. "The arctic could not be whiter." Than what? The line after it as written made no sense, so I won't even bore you with it. Let's be honest: nothing is pure white, not even the arctic!! Snow gathers dust; polar bears are kind of yellow tinged; white walls get handprints on them in seconds (the walls of art galleries are painted practically monthly, I've learned); and "white" people are actually pink. I think this photo speaks to that a bit with the crumpled white piece of paper and the decaying white painted lines on the bridge.
Enjoy! And other interpretations welcome. Heck, you could even count a comment as your 2week creativity for the day.
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Post a commentFalse. #FFFFFF is white. End of story!
If I had a band, this would be a GREAT album title.
JBE - #FFFFFF couldn't really be displayed as pure white unless you had a perfect monitor that was perfectly clean, right?
LM - i like that quote! what were the lines before and after it? that seems like the perfect thing to drop into a love note...just existential enough to send your heart into palpitations...
MF: That's totally what I was going for. Purity is not of this earth. I may write the next lines out in another post.... stay tuned.