Sometimes I think about my way of seeing. Why do my photographs look odd?
Do I see more than others? Contrary. I witness what most people visit daily. Probably 90% of people in this world live in mundane surroundings. There are no unique and extraordinary things in my, and most of the people living on this planet, surroundings. So what makes my photographs often look like they would be made in a different world? Is it my inner, artistic way of seeing? Or, maybe my editing skills in Lightroom or Photoshop (the second I do not use) make my photographs so oddly? I wrote it once, and I will write it the second time: I make photographs in public places to which everyone possesses access. I think it is a kind of paradox in my artistic activity.
If everyone sees what I see, why is it I who is turning mundane reality into something new, sometimes even an abstract, hard-to-explain picture?
I believe that my personal, visionary way of seeing has much to work out. When almost everyone pass-by near waste bins, I often glance over them and try to spot something unusual. Street lamps are another object which I like to photograph. Do other people likewise do that? Rather not. I believe most people living in Warsaw do not have time to analyze their surroundings. Most of us are too busy to examine and contemplate the mundane reality surrounding us. Maybe it is the moment when a niche for artistic creativity appears, for someone who has a specific way of seeing? Yes, I believe it is my niche to which I devote most of my free time.
Walking throughout Warsaw is still the most enjoyable hobby for me.
Moreover, I devote much of my precious time to practicing my personal, artistic way of seeing. Eventually, I want to add that the fact that most of us live in mundane surroundings is always a subjective sense. It is only up to us whether we look at our neighborhood as an ordinary place or, like me, as a truly magical place. But, it is a theme for a subsequent post.
