Undoubtedly, if you track my blog posts, you may ask yourself, my Dear Friend, why I take odd photos.
In this post, I will provide a partial answer. Why partial? Because the answer to the titled question is not straightforward. I am getting to know the solution during my taking pictures since October of 2015. The truth is that I make specific, odd photographs because I want real objects and materials from the everyday world, often trees, windows, street lamps, mundane or even ruined buildings, destroyed cars, or waste, to take on a new presence by dint of creative alienations. There are a lot of unnecessary, unimportant things on our planet. For example, most people who live in a broadly defined Western world do see many trees daily. But who thinks of this fact? Undoubtedly, a minority of us.
By taking all odd photos, I want give a tribute to an average person’s every day of life.
The fact is that I see myself not as a savior of humanity or someone who sees and knows more than others. I consider myself an average person who loves the simple life and wants to get as much joy from life as possible. I aim to do it without looking for the broadly defined happiness somewhere out of my neighborhood, city, or country. Speaking shortly: I want to find peace, calm, and harmony in the mundanity surrounding most of us. The fact is that I do not want to wait for my whole life when I start to travel, and the abstract feeling of happiness will stick to my mind until the end of my life. I want to be happy now and here where I am. Thus, taking odd photos of the mundane surroundings gives the ordinary objects a universal, artistic vision that will be analyzed by future generations.
