Not Good Enough vs Over Caring
Sometimes something just comes together. Great. No fuss. No bother. At other times, something just doesn't feel right, no matter what I do.
Words - those tend to be easy to me.
Images - much harder.
To get them to be right. And to get them to feel right.
A tough balance - to just let something go, when I can't get it to work - to keep trying for a good enough image if something doesn't work (for me, anyway) but it feels like it should - and to recognize when something is right, right enough, or occasionally, the ideal image.
Ok, an ideal image - those I tend to notice.
But those that are in some gray zone of maybe, sort of, just about - those are harder for me.
I'm persistent, which is usually a good thing.
But it can also mean putting loads of energy into something that won't come together - or more often, putting loads of energy into something where a fraction of the energy would have been enough.
Also, sometimes it's not the image. Sometimes something else is needed - and it's easier to work on the image than to look elsewhere - because the image I can work on alone.
And the other thing ... it may be something new, yet another of so many stretches.
Anyway, that's my thought for the day - because I've just made my fourth image for I Live Freedom. Right now I feel satisfied, more satisfied than I have with the others. I hope it holds. Actually, if I'm satisfied it often holds for me - some inner voice has said yes.
Next, will it pull other people?
For that lots else to do.
The image. Right below.
The piece. Right here.
Elsa
April 11, 2013
Fourth try ... I Live Freedom
And for now anyway, that's it!
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To go from this struggle to find the ideal image to
I Live Freedom, freedom poem,
freedom song, freedom anthem,
click here.
To go to more freedom songs,
this time one on Umar Mulinde,
where I've also searched for the right image,
click here.
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Words to express stuff to do with music,
in this case finding the ideal image,
the right image,
or anyway, one that is good enough,
that says in an image what the words say -
I Live Freedom.
Big question. What's the ideal image, right image
for this song on freedom? Big image search.
Try after try. And finally ....
photo of Elsa - Isabelle Girard, 2012
photo of Mark - Elsa
photo of Ed - Elsa
visuals - Elsa, 2012
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