Musings with the camera

Noticing the inconsequential at home and around Savannah there are some wierd and wonderful things seen through the camera lens, the finger by our dustbin made us begin to wonder if we had moved into the wrong end of town!
The writer in the window was a talented and delightful young woman called Lauren DeRosa who has been sitting in the window of my favourite shop the Paris Market & Brocante www.the parismarket.com since February responding to the day via her portable typewriter on a Friday and Saturday. I asked if she would write something about creative inspiration and she kindly did. I used the piece to encourage my graduate students to respond to it for visual personal promotion , I loved what she wrote and take the liberty to share with you her text:
“ Some people say that love or sex or money make the world go ‘round’ but creative inspiration has to be a cog in the wheels somewhere. – All the rises and falls of empires, all the new ideas, the great paintings, the grand architectures and take the Taj Mahal for instance…even if love be the point of departure, creative inspiration is the vehicle that gets it done – its this high thermal on which things travel, like a spirit or a holy, sacred ghost, it’s a beautiful kind of wispiness
People can also sometimes complain that their well of inspiration has run dry.
This is really just a signal that the person has been standing in one place for too long and been looking at things the same way for too long. BUT I understand …. In such a situation it’s best to let the mind go. Give it a day off and let /set your thoughts loose as tendrils in the atmosphere and let it bring back its own treasures.”

Lauren de Rosa The Writer in the Window 4 – 8 -11