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“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.”
— Ken Liu, Mono no Aware

Going forward, looking back

November 20, 2015 in Black & white photography, fine art photography, Portrait
misthaven - photographed by Amy Kanka Valadarsky

Working on a new series of images. What started like a very successful shooting day, leads to looking back over images I shot in the last year, seeing them with new eyes.

Amazing how images I previously ignored, are the ones I love the most. Previously a beautiful flower, nothing more - now, converting it to black and white I suddenly see the witch. The image definitely did not change. It is me who changed. Maybe this is what Ken Liu meant by ignoring the meaning and listening to the music, or in my case ignoring the subject and noticing the shape.

Stringing the images together into a new narrative. Looking into the best way to convey the motif of an allegory. New pastel colors waiting for a first attempt at hand-coloring images.

Who knows where this will bring me...

From the new series "Misthaven"

From the new series "Misthaven"

...another image from the new series. model: Larva. 

...another image from the new series. model: Larva. 

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