These are old photos I created around Valentine’s Day. At the time, the first photo reminded me of the sixties or eighties. (I’m still not sure which.) I’ve never been able to recreate the hairstyle, but I’m glad I captured it! I hope you had a fantastic Valentine’s Day full of whatever makes you happy!
Today’s post is going to be short: Here is a piece of home, because I’ve been missing it lately.
Love in June
Why does attraction bear shame
when authenticity should be bliss
beyond imagination?
What of love and a kiss?
A photo makes me worry and wonder
am I doing right by Him?
If my mind were clouded in filth, what more should I discover
as I clamber inward?
Skin-crawling and heavy-minded
I lay awake in twilight, tortured by what could be.
Is there a point in it
or will it all come crashing?
Is there pride to be found in the monochrome,
saturated only by the few with conviction?
Could there be more besides loathing?
It has a grasp on me.
We were in Peru in the mountains in a small city called Urubamba when the power went out revealing the most stars I’ve ever seen.
Bonus two photos: the comet NEOWISE that passed Earth in 2020 and that I managed to capture.
I’ve been sorting my photos recently and I stumbled across so many pictures from the past that I wanted to share, but this still probably remains my favorite creative shoot. It was for my own exhibition that I curated in 2019 and it featured dance in different transformations. The problem with capturing dance is that a photograph only captures a short snippet, freezes the dancer in one moment, while the entire idea of dance is that it’s continuous. That’s why I used long exposure to capture the continuum and to really show the act of dancing.
If you hover over the images you can see what settings I used, just if you’re curious 🙂 I am working on editing some new photos so there should be some new exciting content soon.
With any questions/comments/concerns you can find me at:
email: akilian@umich.edu
Instagram: akilian,jpg
Despite what it looks like, I enjoyed taking these!
