TASK: Take photos while looking in a mirror.
NOTES: Consider the various mirrors you have around your home and experiment with several of them.
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| Caught my son in the mirror probably thinking the old boy has lost it;-) |
With Eyes Wide Open
and
Doppelgänger Bloggers?
this book is a real eye opener to creativity.
Not to mention synchronicity for me as well.
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| Look Both Ways ... where have I seen that before? |
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| A promo for Life's Too Short. |
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| Unknown maker
(Italian or American)
Mirror (one
of a pair)
Early 19th century
Red pine, paint, and gilding, The Rienzi
Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harris
Masterson III, 96.1355.1.
Honorable Mention
Donna Pauley (Manvel,
TX)
Mirror Mirror
What
faces have been reflected in this glass?
The
artisan, of course, his smug visage
admiring
his own handiwork of
carved
red pine and gilded paint
as
he first hung it on the wall,
his
wife smoothing a dark errant curl
slipping
loose from her elegant comb,
his
young son standing on tippy-toe to find
his
brown eyes looking back in surprise.
Countless
other faces in the ensuing years:
grave
gentlemen straightening their collars,
pretty
girls making moues with their soft pink mouths,
grand
dames silently aghast at what the
passing
years have done to their images,
and
then,
the
delighted O of the curator’s mouth
as
she unpacks the splendid piece of art,
the
admiring glances of the museum patrons
as
they tuck hands deep in pockets
resisting
the urge to reach out and touch
the
intricately carved cornucopia.
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| Reflections in my eye |
TASK: Grab your camera and head out on a photo exploration to discover places your shadow and reflection appear.
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| Let's rock, blockhead;-) |
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| A rock as a bathing cap in the pool area? How lucky is that? |
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| Water, my body's main ingredient. |
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| Deep reflections with some deep shadows that were following me around |
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Be like water?  |
TASK: Find a poem that evokes an internal reaction.
Write about this reaction.
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| House with little stone men on the lawn? |
And since I had just taken all my shots in the pool area of my house Come On In! seemed to be the right book for this exercise, I thought.
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| My room ... fish eyes watch from the wall!? |
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| Don't just look both ways, look every way;-) |
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| Life of Pi...rate? |
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| Above are all the paintings on my study wall. |
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| "Plenty of room for us all, sucker"!? |
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| My miniature lollipops sitting above my computer screen. |
Reminds me of a song I used to sing once.
I no longer have most of the stuff in the above post including Charles Bukowski's Come On In!
The house got sold in my divorce.
I hate swimming pools anyway.
Owning a house with a swimming pool was my ex-wife's dream, and I can count the times she swam in it on just about one hand, two at the most.
All the fishy paintings I gave away to my sister's kids for their kids.
Inner Excavation went to a secondhand bookstore and most of the nick-knacks are now gone, but I still have 'Look Both Ways' and 'Life's Too Short' on DVD.
Such is life, as some bloke once said who long ago lost it all, too:-)
I don't miss my ex-wife though, losing her was my biggest win in the rest of my life I see now in the excavations of my past.
In another 20 years time I'd probably have to be excavated myself to see what's happened since this update, unless I've been cremated that is;-)
I'd prefer to be cremated anyway, as I can imagine my ashes scattering against the winds of this life.
Ok, I'm exhausted. But wow, this journey of yours isn't justg about synchros - it's about how you ATTRACT them. You're a magnet, Daz.
ReplyDeleteWhat a trail you discover. I'm going to take a look for this book. I (nearly)always carry a camera with me when I go out. It somehow makes me more involved and interested in what I see - a part of the whole.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
Great little book that makes you look inwards and outwards at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI must say that I didn't do the scrap-booking exercises,but I did the poetry and photography exercises,as you saw and it was a life changing experience.
I've finished reading the book,but I will continue to pursue things I've learned from reading it.
You would like it Mike,I'm sure,and I think Karin might as well.
I got it from Amazon with a few other books on creativity about a year ago,but it is still for sale there,if you can't find it locally.
Has the old boy lost it? I think you're only just starting! ;)
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