I am slowly going through old photographs and image projects and trying to creat a master folder of all my best pictures. I have a couple hundred in there now although I have a ton more to go through. Realistically, when I finish, I should have very roughly 600 photos.
But why stop there?
If we're going for the best why not run through those 600 and pick out the ones that really stand out, maybe a top hundred if you will? I bet those would be a kind of short hand for all of clerkmanifesto, and great to have but...
Surely some would stand out to me more than others?
What if I took those and really honed it down, my ten best and most perfect pictures? There's some cream rising to the top for you! Just ten pictures! But, I mean, once we're down to ten surely there is one master image that stands out from the rest? One picture to rule them all. Ash nazg darbatuluk, and all that, right? Now that would be a picture! Maybe that's what I should be aiming for!
Show it to you?
OH, no no no.
No.
That picture we throw in the cracks of doom.
Anyway. In other news, while I was sick my lovely wife so kindly brought me some flowers. And since I wasn't yet much going outside (in the rain no less!), I took pictures of these instead. I didn't much like these pictures no matter what I did to them, so I decided to recreate them in wool and fabrics and stitching. By the end we go a bit overboard to test the limits of the approach, but you'll get the basic idea.
Will any of these make it into my folder of 600? Maybe the one with the stem and water in the vase, but realistically, probably not.
On the plus side I won't have to melt any of them.
Charles Bukowski Poem on Hemingway:
ReplyDelete"and remember the old dogs
who fought so well:
Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun.
If you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms
just like you're doing now
without women
without food
without hope
then you're not ready."
— How to Be a Great Writer by Charles Bukowski