I am realizing that a lot of how I motivate myself - for art, writing, living in general - is a belief that what I am doing matters in some small way, and I think the overwhelming feeling that has started to erode at my ability to take photos or write or even leave bed is that it doesn’t.
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All we can do is hope and work for a better future in spite of the insanity.
I am sure you are inspiring people by being who you are and doing what you do.
I sometimes feel like that, but that is normal when you are middle aged
It’s not capital M “matters” but it matters to me; it means I’ve still got him.
You and he both love(d) cars in a way that I’ll jelly of but glad I got to bask in
(He said your car photos should be flagged as pornography, btw, but he was always laughing when he said it)
(Also lmao, I try)
it's near-violently apparent when people are just chucking shit for money, and when people are doing good art for good reasons--which is what's up here lol
From Emily Dickinson:
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
Don’t forget photographers have great power the pen might be greater than the sword, but a 35mm slr is greater than any weapon of war yet devised.
America lost Vietnam because of 35mm film
your work is really beautiful & inspires others in their own practice. no matter what happens to it in the future, that WAS real and somebody will remember
Physical evidence that not only is a better world possible, but that at one point it existed, is important for inspiring hope.
and so i kinda just went all in on “ima make music for me”
making art for me has helped.
I'm worth mattering to. The things I do and make matter to me. I *am* a small part of the world, who deserves someone in her corner, and I can be that someone.