Obligation
Blue and Gold Abstract, Mojave Desert. 2020
It is difficult for us to simply experience. In those wonderful moments away from everyday tasks that we are able to spend pursuing creativity, there is always a struggle against these temporarily displaced demands. They press upon us an obligation to return from any amount of time spent in creative endeavor with something to show; evidence of progress made. But making is only one part of the creative process. Creativity also lies within our exploration of experience. Our senses, thoughts, emotions and how through them we attend the world that exists around us.
Having the intent of making a photograph is an obligation. Through its need to be fulfilled, it pulls at us to seek only within the known, to look only for a resemblance of moments passed. Experience is without obligation, experience is the now.