>>3654456Your thoughts do have value for me! I see the parallels between music and photography in your example, I like how you present different tools to materialize an implicit intention, also that you highlight switching between the tools as an interesting possibility! You've shown me further paths here as well! Thanks!
I need to add some details to explain what motivated me here:
What I mainly did was to study my tool, the camera. This is a good thing as I'm a computer scientist. I tried to explore visual language, too, and I actually think a lot can be learned and directed.
But right now, I suspect that all this has blinded me: I memorized a tool, collected individual random pieces as proof of progress, never pursued anything substantial.
Rough themes in competitions gave me a guideline of what, where and how I could photograph. That kept me busy thoroughly and actually rather in a futile way.
But what if now I wanted to present something to the world outside or someone in particular? All of sudden I see meaning in the work/the creation, see pursuing a concrete task that may or may not be accomplished through photography. I really come to the conclusion that without such an underlying motive, photography is worth nothing.
