“Vacant” While no longer in use, this old building — maybe once a barn — makes me think of both what was and what could be. It is beautiful in its organic state of decay.
The Old Fire Tower Stands Alone, Empty until I climb to the top to fill the emptiness.
On a trip to Tennessee, I was taken aback at the view from Bluff Mountain. Â Atop the abandoned water tower lost in a jungle of cell phone and microwave communication towers, an eerie quiet fell upon upon the world interrupted only by the massive wind gusts–a strange reminder that above the bustling tourist trap USA, [...]
There are the obvious implications of this picture of my gas gauge on empty. But more than that, when I “run out of gas” (energy) in my own life, I often feel empty. Like I have nothing left inside.
At the time, my stomach was empty and I began to prepare dinner. As I did, I hollowed out this pepper which then made it empty.
I took a bunch of pictures at my niece’s birthday party last year and the ones that invoked the most feelings in me were the ones I took of the barrage of cupcakes. At the time I didn’t know why I felt so compelled to photograph a bunch of cupcakes in a bunch of different [...]
I promised this journal I would write in it everyday in late November. I haven’t made it very far. Sometimes I have nothing to write, and I’ve felt pretty empty for the past two years.
I had been talking with a friend about her marriage, about her feelings of being trapped. While thinking about fidelity and the daily choices that it requires, I saw this bronze and its emptiness as emblematic. A relationship in which you feel bound is already an empty one.
Here is a photo of an Elvis jumpsuit. It represents the emptiness of his loss and the talent that is missing from this world since his passing. My friend’s son is an ETA (Elvis Tribute Artist) and was selling these suits because they didn’t fit just right and he wanted a new suit that fit [...]