While doing street photography, I observe everything and nothing. What exactly does it mean?
It means I sometimes observe my surroundings with childish curiosity. Or, I could say I feel like an alien who has just landed on the planet Earth and is curious about everything he sees in front of his otherworldly, cosmic eyes. On the other hand, sometimes, I somewhat turn off my mind. I walk and feel like I am floating, like David Bowie’s Major Tom, in a most peculiar way, in the air. I am everywhere and nowhere simultaneously. It is a moment when I often sing Talking Head’s song “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody).” Which part of the song do I sing?
Feet on the ground. Head in the sky.
It is a moment when I often forget where I am and where I go. I am just here and now, without anything to feel, when I am everything and nothing simultaneously. Do I take drugs? Of course, I do not do drugs. I do not need them, in the same way as Salvador Dali did not need them. In today’s post (I wrote it on the 21st of August, 2023), I want to state when I do street photography, I can focus almost on everything surrounding me. Or, I can be blind and see nothing because despite my feet stomping hard on the ground, my mind and imagination rock in the clouds.
How happy I am that I can walk.
Sometimes I am reminded of one of the most fantastic dialogues in the history of cinematography, where Ratso Rizzo (played by Dustin Hoffmann) says to his friend, Joe Buck (played by Jon Voight), in one of my beloved movies entitled “Midnight Cowboy,” that he can’t walk. When I hear Ratso’s voice, it seems like a nightmare.
