Prop Love
February 15, 2012 
Strange ideas come and go. Sequins and felt and needle and thread, so utterly foreign in my hands, occupied them for weeks, only to be forgotten when their intended unveiling rolled around.
This could mean:
This was a bad idea and I am being saved from humiliation.
Those hearts actually have another purpose.
I need to get better about making lists.
Abandoned props notwithstanding, my mind immediately started gathering other random objects. Strangely, I was carting around a yellow chair in the back of the station wagon. A wisp of an idea, wrapped in leather and suitably colorful. I ignored the nagging questions about does this make any sense? and What does it do? and Um, so what? and allowed myself to play, for the sheer silly joy of putting a yellow leather chair in the middle of a snowy bluff and dancing around with a remote shutter release.
I have no answers. Only a million questions and the intention to stop taking myself so damn seriously.
chair, flexibility, intention, props, random, self portrait, yellow | in journal
Reader Comments (8)
O.M.G. This makes me smile. Big. That's what "it does!"
I agree - huge grins from here. I am wondering why you had a yellow leather chair in the back of your station wagon. But regardless - it absolutely works! Love the heart as well.
I think we'd be friends. My girls get really nervous when, out of the blue, I say, "Know what we oughta do?" They never know what is going to come after that statement. I can't wait to show them this post.
Dude. LOVE this. And I wanna stop taking myself so seriously too. Maybe I need a yellow leather chair.
This is just so much fun!! So clever and creative..and filled with wonderful color!!!
Pure genius Corinna. I like where not taking yourself so serious has taken you, and by extension, us.
Interesting set, must have been tough getting that furniture out there! Great shots!
why does it have to "do" anything, really? we are so quick to focus on how productive a thing-person-sentiment-situation is and we forget that life is in everything, whether it is "productive" or not.
totally love that you had the yellow chair in your car. silly is great and it's a joy to see you embracing it!