March 14, 2011
After watching the Malcolm X movie, starring Denzel Washington, and reading the Motorcycle Diaries of Che Guevera, I found myself longing for such a figure to emerge today.
Passion, for me, has been the center of my focus for some time now. My biggest fear is that I'm passively living, that I am losing years just existing. So I try my hardest to emerse myself in the two things I love the most, but at some point I wake up from weeks of dedicating myself to my art and think that I haven't moved at all. I am still working in a circle.
Let me explain what I mean:
I have tried so hard to work under the motto: Art for Art's sake. I can't. For any type of fulfillment I have to use my art for a bigger purpose, and this is what prompted me to try and become a photojournalist.
The idea of traveling and photographing the world is exhilarting, but it also scares me. It brings out the insecurities of my work that I try to keep hidden so that I can move forward.
Plain and simple: I don't have much experience with photo documentary, and it's the one aspect of photography that I crave to master.
How does all this tie into my desire for a figure like X or Guevera? Here's how:
The vitality and devotion of figures like them amazes me. In my idleness I try my hardest to imagine how I can become this courageous and dedicated to anything. I look around at the people around me and wonder if they are settling or if they aren't ambitious enough to try. It's nothing against them, I think differently from everyone around me, and it's this thinking that is the cause of my stress and sadness.
Where are the Malcolm Xs and Che Guevaras of today? Not one person comes to mind.
Until I started writing this.
The revolutionaries and thinkers aren't in the public eye, at least not directly. The people of Libya, Egypt, and any other country in the Middle East, that are leading and creating revolutions deserve to be equated with Guevara.
And those in Wisconsin who are speaking out against an unjust system are standing against the same people Malcolm X would have stood against.
There are people everywhere who have the vitality and dedication of the public figures I admire and love.
Their plights go unnoticed, but it doesn't mean that they don't matter. Every single one of them does.
And every single one of them restores my dying faith in humanity. And it's because of them that I'm inspired to really truly live and go after what I want.
Passion, for me, has been the center of my focus for some time now. My biggest fear is that I'm passively living, that I am losing years just existing. So I try my hardest to emerse myself in the two things I love the most, but at some point I wake up from weeks of dedicating myself to my art and think that I haven't moved at all. I am still working in a circle.
Let me explain what I mean:
I have tried so hard to work under the motto: Art for Art's sake. I can't. For any type of fulfillment I have to use my art for a bigger purpose, and this is what prompted me to try and become a photojournalist.
The idea of traveling and photographing the world is exhilarting, but it also scares me. It brings out the insecurities of my work that I try to keep hidden so that I can move forward.
Plain and simple: I don't have much experience with photo documentary, and it's the one aspect of photography that I crave to master.
How does all this tie into my desire for a figure like X or Guevera? Here's how:
The vitality and devotion of figures like them amazes me. In my idleness I try my hardest to imagine how I can become this courageous and dedicated to anything. I look around at the people around me and wonder if they are settling or if they aren't ambitious enough to try. It's nothing against them, I think differently from everyone around me, and it's this thinking that is the cause of my stress and sadness.
Where are the Malcolm Xs and Che Guevaras of today? Not one person comes to mind.
Until I started writing this.
The revolutionaries and thinkers aren't in the public eye, at least not directly. The people of Libya, Egypt, and any other country in the Middle East, that are leading and creating revolutions deserve to be equated with Guevara.
And those in Wisconsin who are speaking out against an unjust system are standing against the same people Malcolm X would have stood against.
There are people everywhere who have the vitality and dedication of the public figures I admire and love.
Their plights go unnoticed, but it doesn't mean that they don't matter. Every single one of them does.
And every single one of them restores my dying faith in humanity. And it's because of them that I'm inspired to really truly live and go after what I want.
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