It's time to test my photographic skillz. Yes, with a Z. I'm going to finally put my work out there for the world, and hope that someone, somewhere, think it's good. Someone OTHER than my mom. While it's great that she loves my work, I feel that in many ways she's obligated to.
My first major endeavor, other than the portraits I shot for my aunt and uncle, is a tarot deck. Yup, tarot. Occult practices, divination, all that evil-magick stuff that's so fun to work with. I have a willing and ready model, which I thought would be the hard part. She comes pre-installed with acting skills and a wardrobe, which is tres exciting. The hard part is deciding the interpretation I'm going to use. Part of me wants to go contemporary, part of me wants to go traditional. Part of me wants to make a two-sided deck to incorporate both, but the part of me that used to practice tarot thinks that's a stupid idea, because one side is supposed to be void of images so the questioner can pull at random....
There are a lot of parts of me saying a lot of different things, basically. I need to sketch it out, list some ideas and major themes I want to cover. Do I want to get symbolic? Allegorical? Metaphorical? Representational? I'm not sure.
This weekend is for planning, Monday is for shooting.
Dear brain: please work. Kthx. Love, Kate.
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