Performance art, Day 303

Going home, Day 195

Today was my last day commuting to Denver to teach two intro photo classes. I had to stay late to finish grading and cleaning...it was a 12 hour day for me. I left my house while it was still dark in the a.m. and returned in the dark in the p.m.. I was really dreading my commute, but it turned into a lovely quite time to just sit and stare out the window or people watch. So I will actually miss the twice a week journey. Who would have thought!

Appreciation, Day 125

Today will never be like any other day on 09/09/09. But this goes for yesterday, and the day before that, and so on. Everything is in constant flux-moving, changing, shifting. It's just that some days are similar to others, or change moves at a slow rate so we are unaware. Because of this I need to remind myself to appreciate what I have in the moment, for today will never be like any other day.

New commute, Day 116

I will begin teaching at the University of Denver in a couple of weeks. I went down to get an introduction to the school and to figure out where I am going. In all the years I have been prostituting myself as an educator within the University system (11 years) this will be the first time I will commute to Denver. Part of me is excited to be in a new teaching environment with new people to work with and then the other part of me is weary of having to commute 3 hours round trip using public transportation to yet another location to make an even smaller paycheck. AND THEN I remind myself that I have a job, my house is not in foreclosure, and so far I am able to pay all my bills...life is good!

Seeing is believing, Day 18

Some days I can see what is right in front of me and it makes perfect sense (like yesterday), and other days I can't see anything at all (like today). I was really struggling with what today's image would be. I was mentally trying to force something that wasn't there; trying to create on demand versus relying on my intuition. So tonight I sat down to edit images and I have to admit that I was not excited at all by my prospects. All day long I had visually in mind the color green, the shape of a backwards "C", and the letter "X"....but nothing was visually connecting while I was photographing. I felt like I had "been there and done that." But everything changed when I cropped today's image and placed it next to the previous day's image. I began to see the subtle lines in the sheets that are now made more obvious by the shape of the highway above. These are visual connections that I cannot plan, they just happen. Today's lesson: the more I shoot, the more I can begin to trust in my third eye.