Closer look at some of what I had in this photo: https://365project.org/mcsiegle/365/2024-07-13 The fan and goofy sunglasses were bundled with some pronoun-related buttons and labeled HIGH FASHION -- what a coincidence for my get pushed challenge from Andrew @allsop which was fashion! Just a note on the earrings that were made by a friend and SweetWood member (not the same who I referred to as having made and gifted me with necklaces -- we have many talented folks at SweetWood!) These earrings are little naked dancing ladies. I love them, but there are few places I'd be likely to wear them besides out at SweetWood. Most probably NOT to Sunday Mass at my Catholic parish. 🤣 🤪
My deeply conservative, old school English education and upbringing has left me with an uncomfortableness with the different use of pronouns which, to be honest, I don't really understand but which I shall look into. I do like the fan, a real work of art.
Some thoughts prompted by Mary Siegle’s (@mcsiegle) response and subsequent comments to my challenge for her to photograph something pertaining to fashion.
Photography is a wonderful medium for self-expression and making/enabling us to ponder our assumptions, prejudices, mores, beliefs and moral code. Your three photographs and subsequent comments have certainly made me do so. Viewing them hit me in the eye and compelled me to do a lot of deep thinking about photography, myself, and how upbringing and genes influence one’s whole life., nurture and nature in the raw.
‘Gallery’ https://365project.org/mcsiegle/365/2024-07-11 started it all. Challenging, interesting but in retrospect quite gentle! I did a bit of research on Teddy dean Lesley III and was intrigued to say the least about queer art. The more I looked at this photo the more I began to realise just how much I have been guilty of judging folk without knowing much about them and according to some inherited prejudices and conditioning.
Then came the wonderful ’Fashion SweetWood style’ https://365project.org/mcsiegle/365/2024-07-13 and what I considered to be a courageously honest piece of writing about yourself. Wow! Talk about being (as the expression goes) slapped in the face with a wet kipper! By now I am simply overwhelmed by the issues that this brought up for me and I ended up spending a lot of time thinking about very little else. Sometimes something happens in our lives to make us question ourselves but I think ‘Fashion SweetWood style’ has not only done this but has also in all likelihood changed my outlook on life, and I hope changed me as a person.
Finally ‘High Fashion’ https://365project.org/mcsiegle/365/2024-07-14 and the use of pronouns and the symbolism of objects. I sort of knew pronouns had become an area of importance for some people but I hadn’t taken the time to think about what their significance really is, another area of prejudice and assumptions on my part. This got me asking myself questions about language, sexuality, and my rather unthinking, perhaps programmed, attitude to others and their lifestyle.
I am still working through all this but as I said in a response to one of your photos I respect you deeply for what you have done in these three images.
My very great thanks to you.
Photography is a wonderful medium for self-expression and making/enabling us to ponder our assumptions, prejudices, mores, beliefs and moral code. Your three photographs and subsequent comments have certainly made me do so. Viewing them hit me in the eye and compelled me to do a lot of deep thinking about photography, myself, and how upbringing and genes influence one’s whole life., nurture and nature in the raw.
‘Gallery’ https://365project.org/mcsiegle/365/2024-07-11 started it all. Challenging, interesting but in retrospect quite gentle! I did a bit of research on Teddy dean Lesley III and was intrigued to say the least about queer art. The more I looked at this photo the more I began to realise just how much I have been guilty of judging folk without knowing much about them and according to some inherited prejudices and conditioning.
Then came the wonderful ’Fashion SweetWood style’ https://365project.org/mcsiegle/365/2024-07-13 and what I considered to be a courageously honest piece of writing about yourself. Wow! Talk about being (as the expression goes) slapped in the face with a wet kipper! By now I am simply overwhelmed by the issues that this brought up for me and I ended up spending a lot of time thinking about very little else. Sometimes something happens in our lives to make us question ourselves but I think ‘Fashion SweetWood style’ has not only done this but has also in all likelihood changed my outlook on life, and I hope changed me as a person.
Finally ‘High Fashion’ https://365project.org/mcsiegle/365/2024-07-14 and the use of pronouns and the symbolism of objects. I sort of knew pronouns had become an area of importance for some people but I hadn’t taken the time to think about what their significance really is, another area of prejudice and assumptions on my part. This got me asking myself questions about language, sexuality, and my rather unthinking, perhaps programmed, attitude to others and their lifestyle.
I am still working through all this but as I said in a response to one of your photos I respect you deeply for what you have done in these three images.
My very great thanks to you.