09/23/2024
Two years (and two days ago), I went to Record Bar to shoot my first show.
I had no clue what I was doing, or why the contact there thought it was a good idea to have me the shoot the show, but something told me I *had to do this* and I listened.
This changed my life. It changed the trajectory of…everything. This event didn’t change me, per se, but it set off an explosion inside me that began to deteriorate everything around it, that started bringing down the façade of everything I had built around myself to protect myself and survive. I remember thinking this was exactly where I belonged. This was exactly what I was supposed to be doing. And two years later, I stand by that this is an important part of my life, and dare I say, career.
I’m not really able to get out to shows (for now), which has been a little hard to come to terms with. It’s another aspect of my life where I’m telling myself “this is not forever”. I have to admit though, I was feeling stagnant and like I wasn’t growing as an artist, and was feeling bored with my work, and just haven’t put any photos out I was really proud of, so I’m hoping to take this time (and the ten or more shows sitting unedited on my harddrive *so sorry to those bands*) for growth and taking my work to another level. Not to mention…I always intended to accompany these with articles and reviews, and all kinds of things. Life just…gets weird, doesn’t it?
Say yes to the scary and impossible things. I promise it will change your life. You may not know how at the time, but it will always change your life in some way. Always.
