Monique
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Morning Resolve
🕑 Added 2016-12-30 08:11:15 +0000 UTC Apologies.I should apologize for leaving the blog hanging for a while. Rest assured that I have been quite busy turning out material for several different projects. However, I haven't found the 'desk time' to master editing, communicate with my collaborators, etc. I've got many pieces that just need putting together. However, I have taken on one too many familial obligations, and especially being that it's the holiday season, have sacrificed all personal time.
Regardless, I should be sharing some tidbits with you to let you know that your patronage is going to good use. I'm still learning what does and does not work on this website. Furthermore, because this is a writing blog, and I am a perfectionist, I find that I am holding back on posting anything until I've got a well orchestrated piece of literature. This is not always necessary.
Admittedly, I take my work extremely seriously. This is just my nature. I am not here to receive a monthly payment to keep anyone company, nor to share routine cutesie selfies and personal bits about myself. Nothing wrong with that, of course, just not my style. I'd like to be respected as an artist, and as such, I would like you to get to know me intimately through my work. And I do not like to just give myself away. I prefer for the viewer/reader to make inferences and draw conclusions through a genuine engagement with the work. That is one of my primary goals here. I am here to share personal pieces of myself through what are hopefully my finest literary and visual executions.
It's time, though, to kick up the frequency; And also, to fill in the blanks between my thorough, but vague, writings. So I intend to post AT LEAST once a week, even if to just pop in and share a little something I'm working on.
SO- here is an outtake from the 'Morning Fix' project I am working on. Shared exclusively here.
Special thanks for JPGorecki for photographing.
This project will include a number of different fixations, showcased abstractly, juxtaposed alongside editorials of their respective morning rituals.
This particular shot speaks to multiple layers. First, of course, is hunger. But not the hunger of a man who must have a heaping dish of several meats immediately upon crawling out of bed. I lack any appetite in the morning. But I do like sugar. And I do need my vitamin C. Yes, the image intends to be sexually suggestive here. There is the satisfaction of seeing out into the world, but not necessarily being part of it, at least not yet. There is the nod to solitude and the fulfillment of self in preparation for being a proper noun amongst others in the world.
I hope you enjoy enough to stick around and see more. I rarely ever pick apart the symbolism in my work. I hope the analysis is something you can appreciate and relate to.
My winter US tour begins New Years Day. Shifting gears...
