The subject of a photograph isn't the cool thing you're taking a picture of, really, or at least it shouldn't be. The subject of your photograph is the concept, the story, the mood. A good knitting design isn't about yarnover, knit two together, knit five. A good design is about the interplay of lines, the feeling, the story. A good life isn't about doing this, then that, then the other thing. It's about stories, choices, presence. They're all the same if you want to make a masterpiece. But too often, we just make them whatever stares us blankly in the face. And we're not moved by them, and no wonder.
I want to see my subjects more clearly.
A good photograph is as much about exclusion as it is about inclusion--maybe more. If something doesn't add to the story, it shouldn't be there (easier said than done). And knitting design is the same--if it doesn't add to the functionality, or add to the cohesive beauty, it needs to go. And life, life is like that, too, or it ought to be. A life well-lived is as much about what has been excluded as it is about what has been included.
Photography, knitting, life. They all knit together in metaphor and truth.
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