Remember the proverb, Eat the grapes.
Do not keep talking about the grapes.
Eat the grapes.
– Rumi
Truro, Masssachusetts © 2011 Heidi Straube
You must be set on fire by the inner sun.
You have to live your Love or else
You’ll only end in words.
– Rumi
It’s fun to do collaborative projects; I’m drawn to them more and more.
When it comes to showing and promoting the final piece, however, how do you allocate credit? Some artists may have contributed more time, others more artwork, perhaps another had the original motivating idea.
Tomorrow, Tuesday August 23, at 6:00 PM, Aurora Picture Show, Houston is hosting a “Happy Hour Video Hour with Filmmaker Andrew Lampert,” the subject being “Collaboration as a Means of Control.”
Sounds interesting. See you there?
(“Many moods of Santa Fe” © 2010 Heidi Straube)
The art of photography is much more than just pushing a button. There is an inner process that reflects the mystical, spiritual part of life, inside of us as well as outside. We can learn to take better photographs by understanding and developing this inner quality, as well as understand ourselves and improve our lives by following the inner path.
Please join me for this special weekend in Santa Fe, September 16-18, 2011.
"Bicycle Rider" by Jasmine, Kennedy Place Houston
This June and July, I had the pleasure of teaching my 6-week class “You are the Artist of Your Life: Exploring Life Direction Through Photography” to a group of teens age 10-17 from Kennedy Place, Houston, Texas.
The class is designed to expose teens to the art of photography, as well as introduce tools to look at their lives and futures. Each week this summer teens learned about the roots of photography and looked at a diversity of other photographers’ work, shot how they felt and saw their world, and reflected, wrote, and began creating visions and dreams for their own lives.
The photograph above is one of the fine images that came from these creative young photographers, and is the first of images in a short slideshow which reflects the highlights of their work.
A framed collage of images also hangs in the Kennedy Place Community Center.
“You are the Artist of Your Life: Exploring Life Direction Through Photography – Teens” was sponsored by Houston Housing Resources, Inc. through a grant from the Simmons Foundation, and by contributions from Taos Mountain Radiology (Paul Johnson, MD) and Christina M. Gucwa, Attorney at Law.
Many thanks for the opportunity to inspire and support these creative, passionate teens!
A special thanks to Amy Goldstein (HHR) who conceived of the “Black Frame Project” of which this program was a part. The “Black Frame Project” invites and supports artists to teach in the communities, recognizing the potential of arts to inspire, uplift, and create positive change.
The Inner Path of Photography 