I am reminded of the movie Rain Man with Dustin Hoffman. During the rolling credits at the end of the movie, the director chose to show Raymond's snapshots taken with his camera throughout the story. The pictures were never discussed or shown before this time. Subtly, used as a prop (whether intentionally or not) the pictures he takes beautifully illustrate Raymond's interest: Numbers. Pictures of street signs with numbers, license plates, addresses above doorways ... Raymond saw them as beautiful and chose them as his subject. What and how a person 'sees' and then chooses to express is as individual and as valid as anyone else's choices. On road trips, see what people notice ... especially if the people all have the same occupation ... say, artists. One will notice architecture. Another will notice the trees, the landscape. Some will see the people. Others, animals or a single blooming rose. What we notice matters. How we see the same subject might also determine how we put it onto canvas.
Dollie by Sally Cobaugh/Photo by Kittie Beletic
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