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Week 3 – Project 52 – “Thinking of…”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Week 3 is here! I don’t often do portraits for a number of reasons. I’m not very comfortable shooting them or getting people to pose for them. Also, I don’t seem to be as creative with a portrait as I am with other stuff. However this week I have ventured slightly outside my comfort zone with this composite. I didn’t shoot the photo or even ask someone to pose. This is from a collection of art that students of the Awake and Kaizen programs offered by Sebastion Michaels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a strange thing happen when I was creating this. I kept trying to add things but it just wasn’t working, then my great-grandmother Marie stepped in. Now a little bit of background here, they say that Southern cooks don’t use a recipe to season. They say we just add each spice slowly until our ancestors whisper “That’s enough now, child”, and it’s true. My great-grandmother Marie from Louisiana guides my hand when I am cooking. She died before I was born, but I know she’s there when I am cooking up some etouffee or jambalaya. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, as I was working on this piece, as I said I kept trying to add things when I heard a voice in my head say “That’s enough now, child.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I believe you when it comes to food”, I replied. “But not when it comes to composite art. They didn’t have composite art when you were around. They didn’t even have photoshop. Not sure they even had photography!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point, my great-grandmother Marie appeared before me in a ghostly form and said “I believe I said, that’s enough now child…” To which in my infinite wisdom I replied, ever so sarcastically, “And I believe I said…” and that’s kind of as far as I remember getting. When I opened my eyes and picked myself up off the floor, there was a ghostly visage of my great-grandmother holding what appeared to be a cast iron skillet. I sat in my chair, rubbed the lump on my head, and said “You know, I think you’re right. I think this is just enough.” I saved and closed the composite, got up and took some headache meds, and took a nap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your elders can help, or not. I think from now on I vote help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week 3 is here! I don’t often do portraits for a number of reasons. I’m not very comfortable shooting them or getting people to pose for them. Also, I don’t seem to be as creative with a portrait as I am with other stuff. However this week I have ventured slightly outside my comfort zone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-52"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enlighten-upmedia.com\/wlfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enlighten-upmedia.com\/wlfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enlighten-upmedia.com\/wlfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enlighten-upmedia.com\/wlfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enlighten-upmedia.com\/wlfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/enlighten-upmedia.com\/wlfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/enlighten-upmedia.com\/wlfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enlighten-upmedia.com\/wlfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enlighten-upmedia.com\/wlfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enlighten-upmedia.com\/wlfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enlighten-upmedia.com\/wlfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}