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Me and my camera in my home town, my capital city, my london

To doo or not to doo doo, that is the question…actually the question is why are my pictures conspiring against me to connect when I am trying to be all random and stuff? I just noticed that all the photographs featured this week contain words or text of some description. Coincidence? Perhaps or are they trying to tell me something? This was not my doing. Well, maybe it was my sub-conscious/unconscious mind grouping shots out of habit which is highly possible or my conscious mind has searched and found a connection that was not intended. (yes my brain is a battleground with few victors)

The great paradox of living is that our minds crave organisation and structure in a universe that doesn’t supply it. I have previously sought out patterns and themes in my work as felt it highlighted observations about human behaviour & the world around us. But is any of it actually there? Its so hard to say when we live in a world of our own perception. We also project so much and our brains only really make us aware of things that are somehow relevant to us. I have touched on this before but its a head fuck as its difficult to know what is true meaning and what is imposed. The real truth is we will never know as reality is  no more than another construct we have created to give us peace of mind amidst a spiral of endless chaos. A tough pill to swallow if ever there was one…(apologies if you are metaphorically choking right now)

All I know is that our brains are desperate to find connections and meaning in everything so that things can be correctly filed and cross referenced, they just want to organise the information coming our way and they don’t really care if its true or not. Its all got to go somewhere.

However, all this searching for meaning and assigning patterns and connections are really just a smoke screen to hide the real chaos that surrounds us. Can we not live without meaning? Or is that too much for us to bear? Maybe. It would explain the creation of all schools of thought, philosophy and religion.

Ultimately, and despite the indifference of the Universe itself, we feel everything is somehow connected and maybe it is. Every single entity is made up of connecting atoms so maybe we are right after all..who can really say but I am going to continue celebrating randomness for now, regardless of what my sub-conscious mind wants to do.