Raw from the Road, May 9, 2017

All Over The Place

All over the place.

Yep that’s me.

I’m all over the place. And today, I am embracing my all over the place-ness.

Sometimes it trips me up when people ask me, “What kinds of photography do you do” or what kind of music do you play?”

They’re just asking a question out of curiosity and all the self-conscious computing is taking place in my sometimes over-thinking brain.

So… finally…I’ve come up with this.

I  love that I am all over the f****** place… most of the time.

I don’t photograph just one kind of image and I don’t play or listen to just one type of music.

If I am mediocre in several areas of the arts, so be it… I choose it over boredom and what might become rote.

I play classical, jazz, country (if I have to), R&B, show tunes, my own tunes and any tune that makes me feel good or challenges me.

I photograph trees, people, landscapes, cityscapes, flowers, my feet, your feet, anybody’s feet and shoes if it moves me. I love photographing shoes.

I love creating narratives around subjects that mean something to me whether it’s ageism, feminism, self-exploration, psychology, philosophy, imperfection, my own mainly.

And sometimes, I really love photographing the preposterous… whether it’s getting my subjects to sit mostly naked in a salon chair in the middle of nowhere, photographing the human body to compare to the similarity in nature… or sitting in front of a cracked mirror taking selfies for almost 2 years… I love it all.

I love vibrant color photographs. I love black and white photographs. I love photographing the ocean, the desert, mountains, cars, hands, older people, babies and so on and so on.

While this all may seem chaotic and too diversified, there truly comes a time when it comes together and I create a series from most of the photographs I take.

All I have to do is trust the process and stop trying so damn hard to do just one thing.

I’ve given up trying to fit into a category.

I am an artist and I love creating art. Whether it is fine art painting, photographs, music, mixed media… I love it all and I do it all because it fulfills my soul and feels purposeful.

I also love philosophy, self-discovery, psychology and I’m excited to allow the convergence of it all without categorizing myself.

Next week I have the privilege of guest posting for Color Services in Santa Barbara on their Instagram site, which is kind of what set this off.

I thought about what to post. Should it be thematic? What series should I share? And they said I can post anything I’d like to post.

And this led me to the resolve that I will share a sample of my work and not limit myself to one thing and certainly, not one place.

Hope you will visit me @colorservices on instagram starting on the 15^th, for the whole week. (I just may post one of those almost naked people in a salon chair!) Ok, I’m definitely posting from the Salon Chair Diaries!

Thanks for sharing the journey!
Robbie