Constantly crashing into my mind, like waves, are the thoughts and lack of thought about image. Trying to portray a moment, a story, or a message in a very particular way becomes the most difficult thing at times, especially when you don't want your audience or viewer to mis-portray the media/art.
A couple of months after moving to Las Vegas, Nevada I started a series of images that I simply entitle "skirt". Each image portrays a white skirt traveling to different days, times, and places. There was no pre-meditation to this series. It all happened quite organically and quickly took on a life of it's own.
There is an urge for most people to bring up the feminist movement or vocabulary. Weather they mean to or not they throw out an easy and almost default reading into the "skirt" because I am also a female. It's not that I don't want the discussion to happen, but I'd like to be clear.
With a skirt you imply a female default, an automatic window or door into the subject of a woman and her journey. More for the journey and less for the woman in my particular tale, but most certainly I am trying to communicate a focus on the beauty this subject and object brings to the scenery in each photograph.
The end concept is to "not think", to let go, to enjoy, to remember that you need to stop and notice the things around you, because the one true thing that we have to cherish is the vision we tend to take for granted. Although I've always felt this way I find it easy now to portray this idea through the medium of photography and with the help of an old tattered skirt that has been more places than most people.
Please feel free to look at the rest of this series at www.solidashesphoto.com
