There's Green In The Skies and Water In Her Eyes

Do you ever think of a phrase and then play with all the possibilities of how it could be interpreted? I do, all the time :) It's especially fun when you pair the phrase with a photo set.

This photo-and-phrase-set, for example... there are so many mays to see it. Not quite sure what I mean? Let me show you (:

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The very first thing I do is read the quote, look at the images, and then stop for a moment to let myself feel something. No thinking, no imagining. Just feeling. It's hard to explain because it's a raw and untouched experience... Fuzzy around the edges because the details have been left unformed--the kind that exist before your mind has a chance to chisel away at what it thinks about all of it.

Now for the thinking part. ))))

When I hear/read the word 'green', sometimes I think of 'life'... living things, creatures, organisms, trees. Living things are always changing. If the green represents 'life' and life is a representation of constant change, then change is above us in the skies, below our feet (like when looking at the globe), completely surrounding us (like with the turquoise water). The written focus, though, is on the "Green In The Skies." The change is something we gaze up into, something we never fully understand. It's what filters what we do and don't see lying beyond it.

"Water in her eyes." My first thought is purely analytical. Tears aren't 'water', they're fluid. So this cant be talking about tears. Maybe the water is from that beautiful ocean in the 3rd image. Maybe the girl just had an adventure... or a relaxing tread with the fishies. Or, maybe the 'water in her eyes' means she's looking at it, she desires it, or is possibly even starved from it. Does water represent something to her? Again, is it a representation of life? Vitality? Is water the obstacle or something scary to her? Does she even want the water in her eyes?

The middle image throws everything for a loop. How does it tie to either piece of the phrase? If she's the one holding the world-marble, is she in control of those skies and the water under them? Is she playing games with them? Using the world to compete for something, like kids used to do when my mom was little? Does she bring the world with her in her pocket or leave it at home, safe, where no one can tell her what to think about it... where no one can break it or take it?

If green is primarily matched with land and blue with skies, is there more about this that has been flip-flopped? Maybe her eyes are the skies and they're being filled to the brim with water. Well well, we'd have a whole different set of thoughts if that were the case. ^_^

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You think I'm a total weirdo now, huh? At least I'm a weirdo with creative ways to amuse my imagination, no? ))) I've done this with quite a few of my 'photos' posts--made a photo set and posted it all by itself or paired it with a quote I either made up or found somewhere. Until now though, I've never shared my thoughts on them. Guess I realized that I was probably the only one who knew about my fun little mind / imagination / creativity exercise. ^_^

Do I have a lot of time on my hands? Not really. It look me less than 10 minutes to think of all of those things. And it was fun. Other people might watch something on t.v. or mess around on facebook... I don't have a t.v. ... but I do spend too much time on facebook. Haha. Anyways, I'm just saying, imagining is fun, at least to me. And it doesn't take THAT MUCH time. )))

Now that you know about it, do you want to play along? You might enjoy it. (:

Read the quote, look at the photos, and then pause. Let all of it give you that feeling I talked about--focus on 'thoughts' after having at least some sort of feeling... *sigh* It's hard to explain the feeling part, especially when you're trying to take a moment to not think about them. But definitely try to have a feeling. It's one of the best parts about this process, experiencing something in such a pure way. ^_^

After you've taken a moment to soak everything in, start thinking of what the set could be saying, a story it could be telling, secrets it has within it. Anything really. Adventures. Emotions. Moods.

If you're brave (and you want to make my day), share your thoughts from this post / exercise with me. :)