The Day Expression Left: Part 1

For the last 10 years or so, expression has flowed naturally and organically through photography for me.  The camera was a valve to allow the flow of expression through from Nature to self.  I’m not convinced cameras are tools which we use for expression, perhaps more so a pipeline or valve.  Tools seem too mechanical versus the liquidity of expression.

I could have held a camera in my hands over the past 6 months, the same tool I know how to use in my sleep, and it wouldn’t have worked.  Tools are mechanical and they’re pretty straightforward as in they work or they don’t work.  With this logic, my camera should have worked and allowed for expression, but it didn’t.

What if it’s a mechanism for allowing a flow, both inspiration from nature inward and expression from self outward? What if it was really that simple?  I’m beginning to think it really is that simple, at least for the camera part of the pipeline.

Nature’s side of the pipeline, that’s easy too, it’s always there and forever inspiring.  That just leaves “self” in order for expression to flow.

The last 6 months or so has been a period of my creative journey where “self” or me, I, have had no interest in expression through photography. Zero, zip, nada, gone, no flow bro.   I’ve never experienced this before in the decade plus of my journey and it’s only now I can begin to share about this period.  It’s also interesting to note it’s not a creative block because I have had no interest in expression.

I can pinpoint nearly to the day expression stopped flowing for me.  I can’t pinpoint however, the time where it began to reform, reshape and shift.  It’s still happening as I write this and I’m comfortable sharing this insight into the reshaping of expression.

I’ve been at total peace with a new chapter of my creative journey, the part where expression has transmutated into…

to be continued.