A blown mind is a terrible thing to waste…

So… in a fit of randomness, I decided to go to the Tate.

Now if you’ve never been to a major modern art museum, you’d be in for a real treat. Maybe treat? Maybe… “mind blowing experience”…?

Well, the Tate is just one of those places…

Okay, in all honesty, the Tate wasn’t my aim, necessarily. I was simply out for a stroll.

After going to absurd places in the world that photos just throw themselves at you, going to a “normal” place kind of makes me feel sapped. I can’t seem to get my head around images anymore.

Rough problem to have I guess, being a photographer.

So… in moments of dry spells, I head out. I say, “Today I will make photographs.”

This is what I wake up to. Usually before I’d like, but I do wake up with this outside my window.

…and this:

This isn’t “modern art” just a shiny ball blocking traffic on a pedestrian road.

Modern art is what it is, I guess. To hear some of the “officianados” talk about some of this stuff to people and to read the “artist’s statement” beside the pieces… I can’t help but to feel a little like…

…”I don’t get it.”

I really don’t want to be too harsh. I can “get” Picasso and Pollack and Dali and Escher and all that… but… some things…

…escape me.

Yes, my friends, there is a mirror hanging on a wall. “You are the art.” Across the hall is a blank canvas with a single slit diagonally cut across it. “Waiting,” I think it said.

One piece of art was a piece of irregularly cut paper glued to the wall almost exactly the same color as the wall was painted.

Of course, there are masterpieces there, Pollack’s geometry and fractals are undeniable and if you study it at all, no problem there. In fact, one room was filled with huge canvases with only a couple tones, but the way the lights were intentionally dimmed gave the effect of a three dimensional layered object on the canvas. That’s cool, no doubt.

A solid piece of canvas painted blue except one single stripe? I’m so confused.

Wonder about the students there…

Loads of students today, despite the fact school is out for the summer.

So, along the walk…

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Just a little experimentation. Maybe that’s what all this “art” is about?

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In searching for an image, I will, however return to a place multiple times seeking it. This is probably the third or fourth time this has appeared in similar permutations. I think I’m trying to match an image I made in 2008 at the Galleria in Milan.Great sky today, wouldn’t you say? Makes for good wide-angle…

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Days like today get me excited to photograph again… as simple as these all are. I will explore some more.

Stay tuned…
-Noah D.