invisiblestories:

Paul Klee, Cat & Bird (1928)

My father used to take me to San Francisco when I was in high school. I would bring my camera and tons of film. he would only let me shoot in black and white. He would explain that any one can take a pretty picture but it takes a uniqueness to be able to take a photo of barbed wire and make it look beautiful. “The world views an object as ugly and depressing because they are scared of it ” he would say. “Or because they can’t see the history behind a fallen down house or decrepit cemetery. ” he would tell me never do anything half heartedly. especially your art. That sometimes you have to make your self vulnerable in order to capture whatever emotion you want the audience to feel when viewing your piece.
This past year someone told me with great disdain that I was too depressing because i only liked negative and broken things . I was a negative person for only shooting black and white. So I tried to change but it made it worse.
I went to the cemetery a couple of weeks ago with a friend. They could see the beauty with out it being negative or depressing. They were interested in the history of a particular object.
i realized that I had let someone dictate who and what i was.
No more.

tylerknott:

Typewriter Series #51 by Tyler Knott Gregson

It’s how it always
seems to happen:
One day after
so much cold
and so little light
Summer Explodes,
and from
out of
nowhere,
there are leaves
again.

-Tyler Knott Gregson-

invisiblestories:

“And we build a home. Word by word, sentence by sentence. We make stories, trace letters in the air, long into the night. We make.” Photograph by Anett Holmvik (via therestisbullshit)