continuity

i learned how to cat food supplements see shapes in things early in my art career. i was taught to dissect an object by naming and classifying its parts. the main component of what i was supposed to see, or rather, what caught my eye first was the highlighted area of a metal rail on a bus. it was that moment when i consciously had an epiphany and literally saw the object in terms of light.

i became a photographer at that moment.

now i search for the same blissful experience every day, either by drawing, by photographing or by fully seeing someone's existence. my eyes can only see things as a whole, yet my mind's eye sees everything...color, light, texture, particles, space...

i tend to dissect situations in this way - the sum of the parts. there is an emphasis in academia to see all of the parts. that, i find, is very hard to do.