Tuesday, April 21, 2009

photoshop

After our non-encounter, I still can't get you out of my head. Or should I say, because of our non-encounter, I can't get you out of my head.

Somewhere along the bridge between the disappointing reality and my mind...I got lost.

So here I am, wandering without the compass of logic and reason. Where images are laid out exquisitely around me like autumn leaves, fanned out with the utmost care, so that the whole constructed, artificial scene can hold a natural charm.

The irony here, (because I'm so fond of finding it everywhere), is that even the natural is made-up, what happens with careless abandon are so rarely beautiful, that we often take them back to the editing room, paint on the artistic touches with painstaking detail. And when those lovely, truly natural moments do happen. We do everything to preserve them, including tampering with the very essence of what made them so magical in the first place.

These artificial ideas, with their subtle enhancements, saturated with hope and tints of naivety, of wishful thinking, of idealistic foolishness...these painful, indulgent ideas, I want to let go of each and every single one. But most of all,

I want to let go of the idea of you.

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