This is the final shot taken following the brief thunderstorm. I did manage to catch a few of the last raindrops as they created small circles in the roadside puddle. Of course, this image is “doctored” using software. I wanted to be able to convey a sense of the “inner” world that exists in each of us.
I take a look at my life which can best be portrayed as a colour photograph with bright colours featuring people, things and nature, all in clear sharp lines. I know that this is reality. This is what the world sees and knows as me. But, like everyone else, there are moments, sometimes too many, where it feels as though the colour has been stripped away, the contrast disappears and the mood is verging on hopelessness.
These moments when the stuff that has been repressed for so long, one gets to feel disorientated and lost in a land that hints at hidden dangers, hidden ghosts. And too often, one lives in the outer world while still lost in the wastelands and swamplands of the inner world.
This is the danger each of us faces. No special place in the outer world can protect us from the inner world when it comes spewing out. Our only hope is to dare the inner journey so that one can heal the soul. It is about self-healing. It is about learning to love oneself even though so much of us screams that one is not worthy of love. Yet, when we forgive ourselves, we transform and resurrect our selves. Then, we find ourselves living again, wanting to live. We are more tolerant of others knowing that they too are suffering.
It’s amazing what I find in these photos.
