This week's Throwback Thursday has a very personal point behind it. In my continuing search to find my true reasoning behind creating and to learn what type of artist I really am I have thought a lot about opportunity. In anyone's search for self I feel it is all about opportunity. We can all say that we want to discover who we really are but unless we actually take the opportunity and get up and do something about it we are never really searching and we will never really discover or succeed.
This image was taken, I believe, almost over two years ago, possibly even three. I had taken an entire week off of work so that I could drive around wherever I wanted and take photographs of whatever I wanted. I saw an opportunity back then and I took it. And I took the photographs I wanted. It was the most heavenly week.
I believe it was also the last week that I ever took to myself to do what I wanted. After that life got in the way and became less than ideal. Jobs were lost and the necessity to be an adult took precedent over fulfilling dreams. The opportunities just weren't there anymore.
Looking back on it and with the necessities of adulthood that I have to fulfill now I've come to this conclusion: that the opportunities are always there. They're always creeping into your world. You just have to go make them. You have to let the opportunities in if you want to succeed.
Opportunity | (c)M.M.Hewitt 2014
The editing of this photograph was very purposeful. I didn't choose to change the color of the vine leaves to a purple-blue because I thought it looked cool. To me the leaves represented the opportunities that are always there, creeping into every space, hanging around our door waiting for us to open it, and so I made them an otherworldly color because they are what change our existence. The door I made red. Red because that is what I wanted you to focus on. Why the door? Because that is where the opportunity is really made. Are you going to open it? Or are you just going to let it stay closed and continue to decay and seal shut?
But there is a little detail on the door that is missing. Can you find it? What does this missing detail mean to you? I know what it means to me. I'd love to hear what you think is missing and what it means to you in the comments.