2023 52 Card Project: Week 17: Decisions
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pegkerrThis card is a follow-up to last week's collage, about all that stuff I'm mulling over that I'm not talking about in public yet. (Sorry.)
Although I had a strong idea for the collage by midweek, I flailed around over how to pin down the idea precisely. Choices? Decision-tree? Crossroads? Maze? Labyrinth?
This meant I wasted much too much time on this collage. As with the Loneliness collage I did the year before last, every image I thought of seemed so cliché, and I'm not entirely happy with it as a result.
I spent an inordinate amount of time wandering through images of Jane Eyre at the crossroads of Whitcross. (Too dark, and it didn't have quite the right feel--that stand at the crossroads in Jane Eyre was a desperate and despairing attempt to escape something, not exactly the situation here). I looked at pictures of mazes and labyrinths, but the lighting and perspective weren't right. I pursued a line of thought about the story of 'put-the-big-rocks-in-the-jar-first" but then ran across this pointed essay and decided to abandon that approach, too.
Anyway, here's the result, and it's being posted not because I'm satisfied with it, but just because I'm done messing with it. The champagne flute shows the mimosa I had at the restaurant where I went for breakfast today. Because it's my birthday, dammit, and I am working to make my life closer to the way I want it to be.
Image description: A mysteriously lit path in a dark wood splits into two to go both directions around a large tree. At the foot of the tree, two arrowed signs pointing in opposite directions read 'This way? That way?' In the foreground hovering over the path is a champagne flute mimosa.
Decisions
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Although I had a strong idea for the collage by midweek, I flailed around over how to pin down the idea precisely. Choices? Decision-tree? Crossroads? Maze? Labyrinth?
This meant I wasted much too much time on this collage. As with the Loneliness collage I did the year before last, every image I thought of seemed so cliché, and I'm not entirely happy with it as a result.
I spent an inordinate amount of time wandering through images of Jane Eyre at the crossroads of Whitcross. (Too dark, and it didn't have quite the right feel--that stand at the crossroads in Jane Eyre was a desperate and despairing attempt to escape something, not exactly the situation here). I looked at pictures of mazes and labyrinths, but the lighting and perspective weren't right. I pursued a line of thought about the story of 'put-the-big-rocks-in-the-jar-first" but then ran across this pointed essay and decided to abandon that approach, too.
Anyway, here's the result, and it's being posted not because I'm satisfied with it, but just because I'm done messing with it. The champagne flute shows the mimosa I had at the restaurant where I went for breakfast today. Because it's my birthday, dammit, and I am working to make my life closer to the way I want it to be.
Image description: A mysteriously lit path in a dark wood splits into two to go both directions around a large tree. At the foot of the tree, two arrowed signs pointing in opposite directions read 'This way? That way?' In the foreground hovering over the path is a champagne flute mimosa.
Click here to see the 2023 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2022 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2021 52 Card Project gallery.
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