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When I decide to walk, I swear, sometimes I do it without the slightest idea of where the journey will end.... I have chosen to do it this way, mainly because it produces in me two reactions that I find positive: adrenaline and surprise. I consider myself a very methodical, organized and planned person. These are great characteristics but they have something (negative) that very few people could really perceive? And that is, so much concern for details can make perceiving certain emotions almost impossible. And that's a bit wearing.
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My daughter is already on vacation from elementary school, which frees me a bit from certain day-to-day responsibilities. At the office, as the end of the year approaches, we are almost in automatic mode. So, in terms of organizing the most important things in my week, it can be said; without going overboard, that "everything is coolly under control". But that leaves a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth.... You see, human beings are like that: insatiable. When we master something, we crave something else....
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And although I have everything under control, it is no less true that I would like to do something to which I have been devoting some of my scarce free time.... And that "something" is photography. I don't know if I'm the best, or the most talented... That doesn't keep me awake at night, what really motivates me is to capture reality as it gives me the most pleasure. From my point of view, the art of photography; its most relevant attraction lies in the complete freedom it gives you. I don't know if there is any other human action that gives you so many options of creativity, liberation and capacity as this one.
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Now, I decided to photograph my own neighborhood because, although it is a residential place like any other, it allows you as a walker and passerby, to be able to interact with that quota of non-planning, which many times I hope will surprise me. Like finding a beautiful little Collie dog staring at me. Her name is Snow, she is so sweet. I had a hard time capturing her essence in a photographic shot. She was restless and tender. She kept pawing me and throwing her toy for me to play with her. Animals are God, I just love them.
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Not to mention the Catholic church just a few blocks from my house. I won't lie to you, I don't consider myself someone who is too much of a believer but not an atheist either. I guess, I do believe in him (or her, no one can say or deny otherwise) but in my own genuine way. However, the day was dampened by the presence of some clouds that have covered the sky in my city for the last two days. That fact has caused temperatures to drop and the arrival of winter to be noticed and felt more and more....
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This fact, together with the perspective I wanted to convey made that building to which hundreds or thousands of people come every week, every month and year, to be captured in a way that makes me proud to show you. I don't know, I've never gotten along too well with the idea of authority. Call me crazy but I do believe that the spirit of irreverence and disobedience in its proper measure is something we cannot afford to lose for any reason.
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Anyway, I walk the streets, the common places that I often see on my different roads during the week, but this time emphasizing certain details that although I observe, I don't really look at. And that's the beauty of verbs, don't you think? Although they seem to be two synonyms, they really are not. I'm referring to several photographs that you can appreciate in my post. Like the one of the graffiti on the wall or the telecommunications tower of a local telephone company.... These are places that I may have seen millions of times in my life, but that I have rarely seen. Funny but true...
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My neighborhood is no different than yours, nor am I any more or less fortunate than you. What I intend, in part, with this post is to follow the spirit of this community (Wednesday Walk). That it aims to find beauty in the naturalness of a walk. That we can marvel at acts of normality but that contain a load of value and essence for us and for our lives. This is to exist and to enjoy, at least from my point of view, it is. Places that you have seen a billion times but will always have a new angle to show you to pleasantly surprise you.
The whole experience reminded me of a song by The Misfits, "Descendent Angel" it's called. Oh, what a great and powerful song.... I hope you liked my post and I thank you for reading me. I almost forgot, all the pictures are by me.
