Sugar and Vaunt for Temperance
Added 2015-09-04 00:20:33 +0000 UTCThe past two months of shooting for Temperance have been some of the craziest and most creative I have ever experienced. It started full speed when I got home from Canada with my shoot with Brooke Eva, Mika Lovely, and Jordan Bunniie, and continued like a freight train from there. It feels like its been a year. I've been pushed creatively further than I even thought I could go.
Was it 20 shoots or 30? I don't even know its been a blur.
More and more I'm realizing the challenge some of my biggest inspirations must have faced. Saudek shot almost exclusively in one room for his entire life. How do you do that? Stay inspired and keep creating for decades. Its easy to romanticize the past, but it must have been nice to have people discover your work so slowly back then. With the internet I feel like I must constantly be creating. Constantly feeding the short attention span of social media, or else before I know it the relevance I've worked to build will be gone. I'm sure a lot of you feel that too.
Its also sort of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. I remember when I was shooting for Journey to The End of The Night I would have other people telling me I needed to move on. That they were sick of seeing me shoot with the taxidermy, the couch, from that angle and so on. I'd been doing it for maybe 3 months before the complaints started. It was also what models wanted to do. The internet is a weird place. The creative community impossible to please some times.
Now I'm sort of forced to ignore most other people's opinions. Doing what I a inspired by at the moment rather than worrying about other people. Although its much easier said than done. I still try.
What does all of this have to do my shoot with Sugar and Vaunt? I guess I feel like we met the challenge. I'm really proud of the images we managed to create even when I was worried that I'd reached my limit of creativity for a little while with Temperance. The beautiful thing is that this series like all of my work is a collaboration. A model can bring her idea's, and the shoot becomes sort of an ongoing conversation. A back and forth of inspiration to create moments that we capture. I hope you all continue to enjoy this series, and we as artists can continue to have new conversations with it.
-Corwin
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x7ao50hw1vt3c0w/AAD5VtU0CjaAM4uTrzVnp40za?dl=0
Comments
I definitely do! I sort of see Temperance, The Jungle, Journey To The End of the Night all as one ongoing thought expressed in different series. I am looking forward to exploring this thought more in Wet Plates probably once Temperance is over.
Corwin Prescott
2015-09-04 03:21:49 +0000 UTCKeep doing what inspires you when it inspires you. If you begin to do what other people want you to do then you are creating product rather than art. Your art is amazing and I think that you still have a lot of territory to explore here. But if your muse takes you elsewhere I will follow.
Lee Barrentine
2015-09-04 00:58:11 +0000 UTC
