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Amber Riley Plays Song Association with Terrell Grice

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On Being Unboxed...

Yes, it has been nearly a year since I’ve blogged. No, nothing else I really want to add there. Cool? Cool.

If I had a dollar for every time I felt that sinking feeling during the uncomfortably long pause that follows the question “So what do you shoot?”—I’d have…well I’d have quite a bit of money. The reason is because the answer is “all the things”.

If it moves me or I find it interesting, I will shoot it.

Which means my personal work looks like this…

And my professional work looks something like this:

I only want to capture what will move you in some way…to feel an emotion, to recall a memory, to question…

I’m always looking for ways to reflect the things we take for granted about ourselves…

… perspectives and hues and details that deserve to be frozen in time…

And that applies to the styled shoots and storytelling work I’ve created for brands…

All that said…the variance you see here is no accident. Well it may have started as such but it’s now a very intentional approach to my artistic journey. I am constantly consuming art in all of its mediums and forms. I draw influences from all of these places and people and experiences. And I believe that is what keeps my work interesting. I can bring my way* of seeing to a wide range of subjects and contexts in a way that would be far more constrained if I were to just “pick a lane”. So, the answer to that question, what do I shoot?— “all of the things” for the foreseeable future.

*It certainly doesn’t hurt that I’m ADHD and by definition basically incapable of picking a lane. But, yeah, also artistic decisions and intentionality… :)

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Goths, early 80s

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https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/comments/99eu2h/image_practice/?st=JL5XVDLD&sh=80cfe088

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Bwahahaha that’s breadth funny

I’m, sorry

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Yup. Clarified.

This finally clears things up.

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Digital art by Andreas Nicolas Fischer 

Born in1982, Munich. Berlin-based artist who works with generative systems, representations of data and visualisations of digital processes. Many of his abstract art pieces are created using software which creates images according to an algorithm. And still, Fisher manages to make bits of data look and feel natural.

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@dolly_mariah

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© Sarah Stankey 

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BOOKS READ IN 2018: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?