March 2024 - Rolls 159-166
Inspiration is a funny thing. As I have stated before, my goal in writing these blog posts is to give context to my work, filling in the story behind my images so that viewers can understand where I was, what my headspace was like when I took these photos. Normally, I begin to construct the narrative flow of a blog by preparing the images for posting, looking through them and recalling how I felt at that time. This time, though, I am finding that I don't have anything inspired to say about this moment in my pursuit of the Ordered World; it was fairly consistent with my usual sought-after experience while shooting. Changing light kept drawing my eye throughout the month, pushing me to see my familiar territory with new eyes, while several adventures out of my normal path yielded great results too, like a trip to Chicago with Malia and a jaunt through Berrien County to find new cemeteries. That particular exploration led to my brief obsession with one cemetery, Sherwood Cemetery near Buchanan, which resulted in four photos utilizing the same composition but with different lighting conditions, a shooting experiment that I had not tried in my modern artistic life until that point. But overall, I think the photos speak for themselves, conveying the spiritual and mental happiness I felt as the remnants of winter merged into spring, and my depression began to lift with the changing of seasons. March 2024 was about being in the moment, simply moving with the flow of the Ordered World, and thus I think these images say all that they need to without further comment from me!
Firewood Factory, South Bend, Indiana.
South Bend, Indiana.
Fassnacht Avenue, South Bend, Indiana.
Fassnacht Avenue, South Bend, Indiana.
Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, Illinois.
Saint Henry Catholic Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.
Extraction—Langlab, South Bend, Indiana.
High Street, South Bend, Indiana.
Smoke Shop, State Line, Indiana.
Happy Tails Grooming, Niles, Michigan.
Sherwood Cemetery, Buchanan, Michigan I.
Sherwood Cemetery, Buchanan, Michigan II.
Sherwood Cemetery, Buchanan, Michigan III.
Sherwood Cemetery, Buchanan, Michigan IV.
Ferrisville Cemetery, Mishawaka, Indiana.
Untitled (Elkhart County).