In some posts, I mentioned that perhaps photography will not be an artistic field, which I will be faithful to the rest of my days. Artistic faithfulness is not something I desire.
Maybe something new will happen over the years. The fact is, sometimes I think I could draw. What? That’s a good question. I am often tempted to add something to my pictures or make my image a starting point for drawing. Who knows if I’ll ever surprise myself when it comes to drawing. The fact is that I could already start and use Photoshop to prepare some virtual sketches. Still, I do not do that. Why? I probably do not feel inspired enough to start using Photoshop in any way, even to develop pictures. The fact is that I use Lightroom software, and I do not feel the need to use Photoshop. For today, I do not want to practice Photoshop, even if I already bought a Professional license for it more than three years ago. Still, I do not know if this faithfulness to Lightroom will last forever.
Moreover, I already wrote that reality is stranger than fiction.
Thus, whenever I feel the desire to draw something, I usually remind myself that my photographs are already odd and bizarre enough. The reality they represent does not have to be tuned. Undoubtedly, when we see paintings made by Hieronymus Bosch, Salvador Dali, or Zdzislaw Beksinski we admire the imagination of painters. We usually try to figure out how it is possible that human vision could create such marvelous and astonishing works of art. On the other hand, when I think about it, I realize that reality is probably more odd and bizarre. For example, all the cruelty people can meet during wars (whether it is the Second World War, the Spanish or Syrian Civil War, or any other armed conflict) is much worse than we can see in paintings.
That’s why I do not know whether I will ever switch from photography to drawing. I believe that reality will surprise humans until the end of human civilization. Thus, faithfulness to anything in art does not have to pay off necessarily.
