Negative Space has become a way of keeping time for me. It’s a reminder that the month has come to an end and another is about to start. But I love sitting down and writing this publication every month. It’s become such a great creative outlet that’s something other than the act of taking a photo.
There’s so much that’s been on my mind over the course of this month and so much I could write about. But with this post, I wanted to write a little and show a lot. Like many of you, the holiday season is filled to the brim with traveling, awkward family conversations, and deviled eggs that are either really good or really bad. Even so, the holiday’s hold times of nostalgia and traditions that we experience less and less the older we get. I guess you can’t have that glorious, weeping, warm, longing, cold, gap of nostalgia without first being separated from something you never knew you held so close.
More on that topic later….in physical form.
Some of those things for me though, briefly, were spending warm summer days in third gear on the four-wheeler cruising around the farm. Or spending time on the sand bar peeping out of the Clarks River that’s no longer there. But, my favorite was when we’d break out the clay pigeons, back the truck up to the open field that bordered the one lane McGuire Road, and fill the air with orange biodegradable dust that responds to the exclamatory, “PULL!”
Going back home for Thanksgiving this past weekend I was able to experience some of those things again. Obviously they’re different which is to be expected. But I was still able to enjoy them nonetheless. I took the four-wheeler out for a spin along with my polaroid camera and spent some time making images of things I found interesting that would’ve never caught my eye as a kid. So I want to use the remainder of the post to just show you some photos from the trip back home starting with this months print of my stepbrother looking like some type of Gosling in Blade Runner.
I hope you enjoy.
Cheers,
Andrew
Wow. So many excellent photographs. The skeet shooting ones were particularly striking! I'm excited to see which one makes it into the mail.