I say this is an ode to Scorsese’s “The Big Shave” only because of the obvious content. I didn’t intend on the connection, I only really thought it would be an interesting photo. I drew the comparison while I was taking the sequence of photos that led to this final cut. Scorsese’s short was a commentary on the US occupation in Vietnam. My photo is not trying to say anything. Honestly trying to say things through my work has been kind of slowing me down since college. I spend so much time conceptualizing an idea, and how to portray that in a photo or series, that I find it impossible to get some projects out of the incubation stage.
That’s what’s so great about this daily. I make sure to take a picture everyday, and some days I really like the result. Some days I don’t but that’s okay because there is always tomorrow, and then I’m just going to do it all over again.