I think my post will show how different we really are as people.

I also believe that it should be completely open ended. My side will include language as well. I just need more time to think about this. Of course I have ideas in my head, I just need to develop more. I need to go out to your house without a camera, and develop my train of thought to be able to better see what my final outcome is going to be.




In many ways, I think I will limit myself more than you. This isn't because of the subject matter or the project in general, but more so in terms of who I am. I find it hard to focus when the books are too large, I need something more specific to focus on.

Self portrait might be included in the work. For some reason, it only seems fitting.

I'll probably take a photo or two of your father and mother as well. I hope they are prepared for that.

I think summertime is almost perfect. I'll get to go inside that house and feel what it feels like to not have a central unit for air conditioning.




A really good word I thought of.

TRANSCEND.

For some reason, I found this word really fitting into our situation.




Homes, our most intimate of places.
Home Towns, a place one finds identity geographically and culturally.




I also want to limit myself geographically to your neighborhood and home.




The biggest hurdle I have to overcome is how I will specifically represent you. A photograph of a photograph of you is an obvious cop out way to do it. But I want to find something much more vast in value than that. I also don't want the photographs to feel like you have left the place. I hope you understood what that meant.




I think it's interesting that we have this concept of a hometown. There has always been a diaspora for people and their hometowns. Most eventually leave. Yet of course there will always be memories, friends and perhaps even family. But hometowns, much like basic emotions such as love, really have no practical purpose in terms of self identity. Yet is the biggest influence on us as humans. How is a hometown beneficial to us in terms of practicality? There really aren't any reasons. But that's not the point. It's such things that make us human. To love, to belong are emotions that we all strive for in our lifetime.

It's also interesting to note that we, ourselves will one day possibly settle in on a place that we will eventually call home. If you or me were to have offspring, we create a hearth for new lives of the world, thus another hometown. It's really unbelievable for us humans to find and relate to this idea of a place of belonging. It's beautiful.




I'll also be shooting some in black and white. I don't know, maybe all in black and white. I just have to go see and feel.

In many ways, I don't think medium is really that important. It's really not. Of course it is an aid to visually, audibly to guide us into understanding what we are trying to do, but in the big picture, it's just a tool. I think we really need grasp that. I think you know this already. You do know this already.



We'll see.