I love these photos, Maria. They seem textured, and personal -- and very much Maria-style, somehow. Are most of these things you see often, or are these snapshots of things you've only seen once?
Hey Sophs! I found the picture of the girl in a local newspaper and loved it, so I stuck it on my bedroom wall. The flowers I planted outside my window, where they were great for a week or two before a stray cat pooped on them and all the flowers got poopy and died. The next two were at an immense monastery in a village an hour outside Ktm where I stayed for a month in May. The mural with the girl coming out is also from that time. The dark picture with unlight butter lamps is inside a cave, up a mountain, a day's trek away from the last bus stop two years ago. I loved it. It was small and wet, oval shaped, like going into a vagina. The butter lamps made it all the more spirited.. finally the four portraits are beggars I walk by every day to go to school. I thought I would do a "beggar project" but I never got around to it.. just these and a couple of more snapshots, but I never got around to their name and story. The girl with a shawl over her head has become puffy cheeked and puffy eyed with alcohol and has completely transformed her physique. The next lady had a baby and sleeps in the street. The last picture is a crazy kid that wobbles his head and shoulders side to side, and people look out for him, but I don't think he speaks. The guy with the beard is perpetually smiling, half drunk, walks around with a stick, also homeless. I was surprised looking at the pictures after I took them: they don't seem like beggars or crazy folk. They seem like ordinary, well washed individuals, don't they? I thought it was curious, interacting with people like street beggars, and seeing how normal they look in a photo: I wouldn't have known by the pictures.
thanks for your art series. Its good ideas you posted there. keep it going!
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I love these photos, Maria. They seem textured, and personal -- and very much Maria-style, somehow. Are most of these things you see often, or are these snapshots of things you've only seen once?
Hey Sophs!
I found the picture of the girl in a local newspaper and loved it, so I stuck it on my bedroom wall. The flowers I planted outside my window, where they were great for a week or two before a stray cat pooped on them and all the flowers got poopy and died. The next two were at an immense monastery in a village an hour outside Ktm where I stayed for a month in May. The mural with the girl coming out is also from that time. The dark picture with unlight butter lamps is inside a cave, up a mountain, a day's trek away from the last bus stop two years ago. I loved it. It was small and wet, oval shaped, like going into a vagina. The butter lamps made it all the more spirited.. finally the four portraits are beggars I walk by every day to go to school. I thought I would do a "beggar project" but I never got around to it.. just these and a couple of more snapshots, but I never got around to their name and story. The girl with a shawl over her head has become puffy cheeked and puffy eyed with alcohol and has completely transformed her physique. The next lady had a baby and sleeps in the street. The last picture is a crazy kid that wobbles his head and shoulders side to side, and people look out for him, but I don't think he speaks. The guy with the beard is perpetually smiling, half drunk, walks around with a stick, also homeless. I was surprised looking at the pictures after I took them: they don't seem like beggars or crazy folk. They seem like ordinary, well washed individuals, don't they? I thought it was curious, interacting with people like street beggars, and seeing how normal they look in a photo: I wouldn't have known by the pictures.
thanks for your art series. Its good ideas you posted there. keep it going!
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