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getting on an airplane=fear reaching out for control=grabbing camera pressing lens against glass=looking out at lights flying by shoot! shoot!=try to capture the sight forget that you are flying=involuntarily relinquish control change your mindset=deny reality think you are in control, realize the irony recognize you are not in control ---------------------- To me, this series is both humorous and intense (and I should state that it has no connection to the book of the same title by Erica Jong). The intensity has to do with my now (mostly) resolved fear of flying. The humor emerges in a sort of triumphant irony in that these photos were created in an attempt to gain control during a fearful situation but are themselves images over whose composition I had no control. The triumph is that the idea of relinquishing control won out and the photos themselves visually portray what I was trying to avoid: lack of control. Even if I had masterminded the situation, from lighting to movement, it would have been impossible for me to create what chance did. The jagged and wild lines of light flying around may seem tight and controlled in a graphic way, but technically they are the result of a spontaneity of movement and time. Emotionally, perhaps, they draw a diagram of fear. |
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