If I had to give a name to that street, from one photo, it would be Walking Street. It's literally the first word which springs to mind. There's no other way to efficiently traverse it. You're a pretty good photographer Linh. You've got the skill to capture in images as you have in prose. Your eye is fantastic, but all artists start with this. What is rarer is someone who can express what their eyes see in different media.
Have you ever tried to sculpt or carve? Even if you never tried, you might be delighted even if it doesn't become a hobby. I found out to my own surprise that I could carve rather nicely the first time I picked it up. Rarely done it since but once in a while an excuse arises to show off even if just to myself. I'm nothing great, I don't have your "Eyes" so anything I do is limited to this I think. My eyes pick up on anomalous details and take a long time to gather the whole picture in a way I can recreate. Yours take in the entire human landscape and can distil it to a size that mortals can feel and relate to most viscerally.
If you ever do anything, any form of expression whether sculpting, painting or whatever, I bet a lot of people would derive pleasure from its presentation. I would be very interested. Your eyes' expression of things, especially ones I have seen already with my own, multiply my own experience economically. Like having an extra decade or two of life experience. A way we can extend our lives for the final ledger?
I studied painting in college and showed my paintings and drawings a bit before I gave that up. I was reviewed several times in the Philadelphia Inquirer and I was also a critic in residence at Art in General in NYC. I had a very brief career as an artist, in short. My first published writing was reviews in The New Art Examiner, based in Chicago.
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If I had to give a name to that street, from one photo, it would be Walking Street. It's literally the first word which springs to mind. There's no other way to efficiently traverse it. You're a pretty good photographer Linh. You've got the skill to capture in images as you have in prose. Your eye is fantastic, but all artists start with this. What is rarer is someone who can express what their eyes see in different media.
Have you ever tried to sculpt or carve? Even if you never tried, you might be delighted even if it doesn't become a hobby. I found out to my own surprise that I could carve rather nicely the first time I picked it up. Rarely done it since but once in a while an excuse arises to show off even if just to myself. I'm nothing great, I don't have your "Eyes" so anything I do is limited to this I think. My eyes pick up on anomalous details and take a long time to gather the whole picture in a way I can recreate. Yours take in the entire human landscape and can distil it to a size that mortals can feel and relate to most viscerally.
If you ever do anything, any form of expression whether sculpting, painting or whatever, I bet a lot of people would derive pleasure from its presentation. I would be very interested. Your eyes' expression of things, especially ones I have seen already with my own, multiply my own experience economically. Like having an extra decade or two of life experience. A way we can extend our lives for the final ledger?
Hi Rabbit,
I studied painting in college and showed my paintings and drawings a bit before I gave that up. I was reviewed several times in the Philadelphia Inquirer and I was also a critic in residence at Art in General in NYC. I had a very brief career as an artist, in short. My first published writing was reviews in The New Art Examiner, based in Chicago.
Linh
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