I think its important to have a lot of projects. At least it is important for me. When I do the same thing over and over again without occasionally trying something else I feel like I stagnate, and it gets harder and harder to pick up the camera.
I love photography, but boredom is a killer. This is why that despite my love of travel, nature, nudes in nature, I always need something going on at home. Pulp was that series when I first got to Seattle. A challenge in experimentation that I slowly figured out not knowing where it was going, or what it meant.
People put so much pressure on the importance of meaning behind art, sometimes a portrait is just a portrait. Most of my favorite master paintings are just that incredibly rendered portraits. I know I'm not a master painter...not even a master photographer, but still series like Pulp photographing models as they want to be photographed let's me stay sharp, allows me to hone my craft, so that when I return to the woods I am better than the last time I was there.
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