Monday, August 07, 2006

self-portrait

5 comments:

Technoprairie said...

I don't know how you took this picture but it is fantastic. It IS you.

Mike Bailey said...

Well, it was night at our old house. Everyone was asleep. I was feeling incredibly melancholy. (Sp?) I cracked open the door to the garage, turned off all the lights except the car lights, which created a strong horizontal light. I posed partly in and partly out of the light. I put the camera on a self-timer, posed how I felt, and there was the picture. Then I converted it to black and white and amped up the black. Thanks for your comments. They are so sweet.

It FEELS like me more often than it should, I fear.

Technoprairie said...

My first impression was of someone in deep thought and that is how I think of you. You (and Joe) think about things that never cross my mind.

Technoprairie said...

My first impression is one of someone in deep thought and that is how I think of you. Both you and Joe think about things that never cross my mind.

Mike Bailey said...

Joe is a very clear, orderly thinker.

I suspect I am driven more by intuition than Joe. I have lots of thoughts, many of them contradictory, that I like to hold together. It makes for incoherence. One can say in a fundamental respect that my simultaneous embrace AND unease of contradiction is a drving part of my personality. Sometimes it makes life very hard.