048: Temperate Horseface

Temperate Horseface, originally uploaded by gingerpig2000.

Horseface

I had never heard of making your face resemble that of a horse, I assume it is a cultural thing. Anyway, since I used text yesterday as part of the image, I thought I would do something similar today, except this time I chose a proverb for the basis. Out came the bottles again, anybody would think I am an alcoholic judging by the number of times I use them as props.

I tried to use a gap between the water and the drinks bottles and split the text so that it looks like each piece of text goes with separate parts of the image. Bending my head and the long slope down my arm seems to help as well (the slow fall into alcoholism). I even chose the sweatshirt as something horsey colour.

A number of my photos, including this one, does not seem to fit the pattern of masculine-feminine, although the ones that do not seem to fit are intended to contain some humour. This has been an unconscious choice, I think something within me has waited a long time for expression.

23: Human Bodies as Words

A word from your god, originally uploaded by gingerpig2000.

A few words from your god...

The last day of the long weekend, and today I managed to get a shot that only required minor editing. Here the letter is a V, as an "A VEe", or 'ave'.

Living in Poland and you cannot help notice that the churches look different - but the one I can see from my window at work has a replica, circa 1938, English Gothic tower in concrete. This tower had until fairly recently the word 'AVE" near the top on each side. I simply used the idea of "AVE" in the sky and the idea of a god, looking down from heaven, with the burning fire of Hell just behind one shoulder.

15: Scrunched Up Faces

I wanted to try another composition, and after some conceptualising I ended up with this triptych. The interesting thing is that people really like my humorous images, but I also want to express my serious side too as I feel it needs a lot of development even at the age of 45. One interesting side theme is psoriasis, something that I live with more successfully in terms of acceptance than most people with it. Doctors criticise that I do not look after it well enough, but on the other hand they do almost nothing to help people accpet it, perpetuating the background whine of 'conceal it, hide it', which does nothing to help find a cure. Instead it keeps a market going for temporary cures, a way of making us pay financially for what we have as our skin.

In terms of generating ideas, this multi-theming (psoriasis / new-groups / finding-me / humour / etc) helps in generating ideas, on any day I have a number of sources I can draw upon, non of which existed at that moment I decided to pursue this project. When we get involved in a project it is easy to run at it and assume that we already know enough at the beginning of the project, but it is much better to develop these themes as a way of solving the inevitable 'writer's block'.