Monday, September 1, 2008

feet pose

I like taking photo of the places which I had stepped foot in. I’m not exactly sure when this habit developed, but since then, I’ve tried to take photo of the different terrains, different tiles, different grounds, or the different landscapes which I had the opportunity to experience. All having the same pose. Left foot and right foot, standing aligned, side by side. To some people, it may not show much, seeing a pair of feet on the ground only. But I like it. It is a way of reminding where I’ve been or I’ve stepped into. Definitely, there are not two pictures which are the same. At least, up till now, there aren’t any. In future, perhaps, one day, my two feet may encounter, by sheer chance, the same kind of place that they have threaded before, but I doubt it would be the same. At that time, I would believed, the purpose and pleasures which brought them there in the first place would not be the same. Even so, say by diminutive luck, those two aspects converged, there is still another part which needs to be the same, which only then can the pictures be exactly identical. The appearance of my feet. The condition and the dressings which they found themselves in for that moment. And for this part to be able to recreate the past conditions of itself, is a big, mighty feat. So, I doubt the feeling of deja-vu, when seeing photos of my two feet’s adventures, would surface.
I’m not weird for doing this. Stop that thought from being strung up completely in your mind.
I may be the only one taking repeated photos of my feet, but then again, I know very few people and very little of people. But certainly, I’m not the only with this kind of, what’s the word, habit (?). Other people just take pictures of different things or different parts of themselves but in the same pose, all when they are in different places. A friend of mine, she takes photos of her jumping. She tries to capture the perfect moment when she’s lift up in midair, when her legs are not on the ground and her hands are up in the sky. She tries to do it almost at every permissible places that she has had the pleasure of being there. And she had compiled all of them into an album. It is a neat idea, I think.

Wondering I should emulate her and do the same. An album for all the pictures of my feet. It’s a thought. Making a conscious effort then to build up the materials for this album.


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