Sentient Ideas
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.” - David Lynch
I don’t fully understand it yet, but I swear to god that the things we create (songs, photographs, poems…) have a will, energy, desire for relationship, or preference of their own…
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This is a perfect example: I took these two photographs a year apart and was completely unaware of their connectedness until this week.
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Both of them, candid evening moments after @caitlynsmith shows. One is @caitlynsmith entering our greenroom trailer in New York in 2023, the other is her husband @rolliegaalswyk exiting ours in New Hampshire in 2022.
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Both frames are accompanied only by a meandering @stevebosmans minding his own damn business. 😂
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For some reason, I opened my archive and found them side by side. When I saw it, I just started laughing. I was so delighted by the serendipity and I’ll never be able to see one of these photos without thinking of the other.
For more thoughts on this, check out my “Daily Guinness” podcast episode HERE.
