Topic 3: VISIONS TO BE WRITTEN

• Can you account for the effects of your methods / methodology?

• How does your practice depart from familiar narratives?

• What agency do you have in how your work is received and whether it will survive?

This was a tough one to go through. A part of my reasoning for pursuing creative endeavors is to somehow escape from the consistent tragedies and uncertainties of our present and future as a society and as a planet. I somehow, foolishly and ignorantly thought that digital photography was the lesser of any "evils" in terms of sustainability and responsibility. Surely film is worse for the planet, but is anything that we humans do a healthy response to an ongoing planet crisis?

In considering phototaxis, calling attention to light pollution is a tiny part of what I am trying to communicate, but do I envision my work making any sort of difference? no, none at all.

This may be pretty jaded, especially coming from a teacher.

I am not sure what is meant by whether my work will survive? I don't have any intention of having my work survive beyond my own survival. I make no wish for large audience nor do I anticipate that as a possibility. I am pursuing photography as a creative outlet and one that allows me to connect with the world in a productive, creative, and inspiring way.

I never thought I would be a "sports mom" and I always found it pretty confusing why people spent their time engaging with sports - letting it consume them. I was an athletic teenager but I never watched sports on the television. It just didn't appeal to me. I thought I was "above" it - living in the real world not just watching others do as such. Now, as I watch the world crumble around me, sitting on my mountain of privilege, I understand why people immerse themselves in sports. A microcosm of the real world without the tragedy, without the uncertainty. A pure distraction, one where we know the outcome....we have expectations, we know the recipe for success, we have bits of human connection woven within it all. Photography is the same for me...a distraction from it all.