Since my days of university (photography), I've always struggled with "having to work on a specific theme" as opposed to just recording, re-acting to life, I'm talking photographs here.
The profs would tell me I had to work on a theme, I would say "but I just shoot whatever I react to in my everyday life." For some reason I felt that wasn't acceptable. So I started working within those boundaries, which works perfectly well for loads of people!
Now that I have this blog, I can post and shoot whatever I want. I also realized that I often think and see the duality in the world/life. War and beauty, life and death, time and lack of and so on.
I have a friend who not only is a talented artist but also due to her physical appearance has inspired me to do a little story on Frida Kahlo.
I think of Frida and her strength and vulnerability, her pain and pleasure. These are assumptions obviously, but it is what I get from her work and story.
I see so many of us women, going through our lives and experiencing these paradoxical realities.