Happy New Year!
I bought myself a Craig Edwards art photograph. I saw wings of creativity and new directions. I just wanted to know more about the picture so I asked Craig Edwards to tell me about his photograph. Glen and Anita Cook were eating lunch with me and when she saw it she said, "I see a seed pods exploding." Craig said, "It's pigeon wing impressions in the dust of the ceiling in a grain bin." I wanted to know if he actually knew it would turn out to be such an awesome picture. He said, "I saw it and immediately knew it would make a great photograph. Well as is often the case, when you look for things you have to look for artistic merit. I don't really know what it is right away but something catches your eye. As you work on it and modify it the final image is shaped by introspection. It's a combination of emotional and intellectual introspection, but the real deterring factor is what the emotional and intellectual limitations are while I am working on it."
"I don't really have a title. Because I can't really decide. One of the things about it is the story. I couldn't get the pigeons out of that bin. And I didn't want shoot holes in the bin. They didn't want to leave because they weren't trapped. They were young pigeons and they were using these bins as training grounds to learn how to fly." I asked him how he got them out of there. He smiles slyly, we all laugh, and he says, "There are two scenarios. One scenario is I could have picked up a stick and clubbed them to death. The other scenario is I could just keep them flying long enough till they got tired and when they landed on the ground I'd picked them up and throw them out the door." So, what did he do? "It really depends on the audience wouldn't it." We all laughed. "The truth is I didn't hurt a single pigeon."
It is a New Year a time to search with introspection emotionally and intellectually and fly!
