I think that I have, in the last several days, been engaged in personal exploration, creatively. That is, I have been searching for personal meaning in the scenes I see before me, and I’ve tried to capture, process and present those images here in a way that is meaningful to me, primarily. I hope you’ll all continue to indulge me as I continue to explore life this way, which I find much easier to do than writing a novel. In this particular scene, I was focused on the “nothing”… and the “everything” in our lives; that is, the “nothing” that we sometimes chose to focus on, while allowing the “everything” that matters to take a back seat to watch the show. It also reminded me of Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Painting of Dorian Gray, in which “man” sacrifices his soul in pursuit of pleasure, only to realize when it was too late that he had chosen… poorly. His life had had become a disheveled mess (like this table) filled with… nothing, save regret. Given what I was thinking I wanted illustrate, I chose to process this photograph to the song Nothing and Everything by Red.
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