Thursday Post. 10.15.

I have been in Chicago, Illinois for the past 5 days and trying to think about my work has been difficult. This was a poorly timed trip, because so much work is due when i get back but it's hard to find my focus.

At this point, after talking with Jeff, I have been instructed to shoot more and move away from building for a moment. I was watching the popular television series Planet Earth, not expecting a concept to come to mind, but the beauty of what I saw on screen made me pause the show and just stare at what was on the screen. I was thinking to myself that I needed to have a still image of the moment. It was too beautiful to let it go, so I started shooting the documentary in all of the places I was compelled to pause it. This got me thinking about how taken I was by an image on a computer screen. I wasn't accomplishing anything at my computer, in fact I was probably procrastinating from my blog, but suddenly I felt productive and enlightened. The way I was shooting the show, still spoke to my abstract aesthetic and to the origin of the Earth. I felt almost guilty taking images from the documentary, but

It was at this time when my friend Ben, broke the LCD screen on his computer. The color display on the computer was amazing, because the screen broke into a series of vertical stripes and crystalline shapes. I asked him to let me shoot it before he took it in to get fixed. He obliged me and so I now had two separate series, one of the Earth through an LCD and one of a broken LCD. Strangely, the two sets seemed to complement each other. The vertical lines found through both repeated in the natural state as well as on the LCD. Also, I had images of crystals found far below the earth in caves and the crystalline looking structures in the LCD we're eerily similar. I was beginning to think that I was onto something.