Vividity

 

Often, I am Quiet and in Thought,

Thinking or Dreaming too vividly.

My Thoughts are Crystal Clear……….

Until the Ink Bleeds onto the Page-

Until I Try to Voice them.

I fumble, My Words Unable to Catch up to My Ideas.

These Phrases Transform Into Tragedies.

A Lense Is My Clarity.

I Discover an Unspeakable Beauty within Each Photo.

It is My Belief that Every Photograph Latches onto

Moments We Wish Would Live Forever.

Photographs are Slots for the Inexpressible,

Experiences in Our own Histories that We Have No WORDS for.

Give Me a Camera and I will Capture Instances that

Will Take you back to an Entire Memory.

The Power of the Shutter will Encapsulate what the Blink

Of Your EYE would have otherwise Sooner Forgotten. 

And Better Embody the Purity that Your Words would have otherwise Tainted.

When Words Fail,

A Photograph will Provide A Thousand More.

Evoking Emotion, Thought, Conviction, Nostalgia. 

    I began this project with the intent of discussing the importance and affects of visual rhetoric within public advertisements and photographs.  Instead though I started off by analyzing my own photography and the importance that I found that they posed to me.  This inquiry project has unveiled to me why I am so passionate about photography; even helped me to delve into my own beliefs of why photographs are so important.  A lot can be said or interpreted from an image.  What I may notice or find beautiful or innocent within a picture, another person may not even realize.  If done right, visual rhetoric can translate so many different reactions from its reader.  However, I think that often times words become misconstrued and distort the original intent of ones thoughts.  I find myself having trouble describing exactly what I may be wanting to say using using words...when I do, the ideals are lost in a jumble of unnecessary adjectives and phrases.  This is where I believe certain concepts become distorted, especially when mass produced to a large audience.  My photography truly is my clarity.  It is an art form that has yet to be rendered by many people as anything more than an occupancy of free time.  Photography holds an importance to everyone, even if it's something that you as an individual choose not to partake in or keep up with.  When I look at a photograph, I do realize the technicalities like the angle, perspective, or lighting; but I will be transported back to the day that it was taken.  The entire experience that surrounded that one image is forever captured.  The conversations, the laughs, the heartaches, the way the sun shined upon my face.  We as a society over use words as a technology that has in many ways handicapped us.  Why should we attempt to describe beauty or innocence or heartbreak?  Why, when a photograph can do that and so much more.  Whether your using your iphone, a wide angled lense, or double exposure film, a photograph remains as a snapshot of history.