Opinions Are Like...
Jun. 27th, 2011 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingman... Erm... armpits!!! Everybody has one... or two, in this case.
Anyway, my Father was over the other night & happened to see this photo of mine, which I'm currently using as my desktop background:~
And he was curious enough to ask what it was. I told him it started life as a picture of a sunset, taken on the balcony, but then I'd done some work in P'Shop & begun to 'see' a head in the clouds, so worked to emphasise it.
His sniffy reply... "Well... I'd stick to taking pictures of sunsets if I were you."
My father is a sculptor, draftsman, painter & mould-modeller ~ pretty much an across-the-board artist who was disappointed in me when, at an early age, I displayed no talent whatsoever for drawing, nor for any of the related disciplines. My nascent musical ability was no consolation, as he placed no real value in it. At least he let up on me a little when my younger sister proved to have all the ability I'd missed out on. Not even the ARIA award I won in 1995 (complete with an acceptance speech by a bandmember that was as rock'n'roll as electronic music gets) cut much grass with him, apart from a token "Well done"
So, in the traditional, clichéd, conventional way of Sons & Fathers, I've always looked to him for approval in my creative endeavours &, when I found some international 'fans' of my photographs via Flickr, I gained some confidence... enough to allow me to have my work on display for him to see when he was here.
Honestly... I'm 44 years old... When will I step free of that shadow??!!??!!
Anyway, my Father was over the other night & happened to see this photo of mine, which I'm currently using as my desktop background:~
And he was curious enough to ask what it was. I told him it started life as a picture of a sunset, taken on the balcony, but then I'd done some work in P'Shop & begun to 'see' a head in the clouds, so worked to emphasise it.
His sniffy reply... "Well... I'd stick to taking pictures of sunsets if I were you."
My father is a sculptor, draftsman, painter & mould-modeller ~ pretty much an across-the-board artist who was disappointed in me when, at an early age, I displayed no talent whatsoever for drawing, nor for any of the related disciplines. My nascent musical ability was no consolation, as he placed no real value in it. At least he let up on me a little when my younger sister proved to have all the ability I'd missed out on. Not even the ARIA award I won in 1995 (complete with an acceptance speech by a bandmember that was as rock'n'roll as electronic music gets) cut much grass with him, apart from a token "Well done"
So, in the traditional, clichéd, conventional way of Sons & Fathers, I've always looked to him for approval in my creative endeavours &, when I found some international 'fans' of my photographs via Flickr, I gained some confidence... enough to allow me to have my work on display for him to see when he was here.
Honestly... I'm 44 years old... When will I step free of that shadow??!!??!!
