Behind the Mask
I get inspiration from what I read, what I hear, what I see, what I think.Yesterday, inspiration abounded.
First, I read Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Hidden within it are snippets from the revered Book of Bokonon, like this one:
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why go right ahead and scold Him. He’ll just smile and nod.
The I ran across this website (via yewknee) called “Before I Die, I Want to…” The idea was simple; photograph people and let them write what they want to do before they die on the bottom of the photo. Some of them were downright haunting…
Heady stuff, to say the least.
Then I read another book (I’m still in the “recovery” stage of my recent surgery). My book-swap friend had recommended The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst, and as he has nearly impeccable taste in literature, I dove right in and read the entire thing last night.
It was haunting and sad and deep and sad. It was the story of a man, a linguist, and his attempt to understand his beautiful, passionate, troubled wife. She was a maker of masks, and the idea that we never really know what’s behind a person’s mask - the face they present to the outside world, even to the people they love - ran through the novel, right up to its crushingly bittersweet end.
And so I gathered my inspiration up today, and I made this:
August 29th, 200811:32 pm at
The mystery deepens….hope all is well.
great shot, what method pp? I love the flash of red.
September 2nd, 200811:02 am at
This is my favorite:
September 2nd, 200811:02 am at
Ok, so I guess I can’t post photos in comments…
Here it is: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/2821543247_2862d687ab_o.jpg