This is a funny little thing:
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
I had my leaving drinks tonight (a fact which my friend Eddie couldn’t quite get his head around. “You’re only going for two months? And you’re having leaving drinks?!”). Anyway, I took my camera along with me to take photos, expecting full well to upload one or two here tonight.
Only: I didn’t take any photos.
Yet cameras symoblise that - and I’m about to use the ‘d’ word - dichotomy.
They symoblise taking part in the world. Interacting in, and connecting with, it. I took my camera because I wanted to capture this event and the people involved in it. And yet it never left my bag. Because I was, exactly, interacting and taking part in my world. I was so involved in it that it didn’t occur to me at any point to stand outside of it and take pictures thereof.
There’s one dichotomy.
And the other (does that make it a trichotomy?): you also don’t record the world when you’re not connecting with it.
ie: A lack of pictures can mean the exact opposite of the above. A lack of involvement.
Hmmm.
And thus endeth the Thought For Today. (That’s right, that thought is: “Hmmm”.)
I would write more, but I’m terribly tired. Thank you so much to all those who came out to play tonight. I would love to show you the photos, but unfortunately I don’t have any.
