Art Direction. Photography. Graphic Design. Letterpress Printing.
Clean. Crisp. Visually pleasing.
I often operate from a visual perspective. It’s my sweet spot. I love it. I look for it. I create and capture it. I delight in seeing the beautiful things.
I frame shots to leave out the “ugly.” In a bite sized Instagram you will see a picture perfect scene. If you had the ability to zoom out, you would see that there is so much more.
A photo of a coconut drink, sunbathing feet and a pristine pool allow you to miss out on the 10 or so middle aged foreign men who have Thai women (10-15 years their younger) at their sides, offering them an afternoon of luxury before buying them as nightly entertainment.
The entire scene makes my stomach turn. It literally makes my heart hurt to watch. It creates a visual picture in my mind that I struggle to get out of my own head. The thought of sharing it with the world seems cruel.
I frame photos the way I do to showcase what I want you to see. It’s not a false representation, it’s not staged, it’s just not the entire story and that’s the part that I’m struggling with.
There’s something inside of us that wants to protect one another and ourselves from the ugliness and pains of the world.
If you were to know me only through my Instagram account, you would think I travel the world posted up on Cloud 9 and constantly carefree. Wrong, I’m afraid.
“To get the right perspective in life, we need to view people from Heaven’s point of view. If we will look at our situation from God’s perspective, we’ll interpret what happens in a different light.”
I’m pretty positive that Heaven’s perspective would have included the men and women at the pool in its Instagram. I don’t know what the hashtags would have been- I’m still talking that one out with God, but what I do know is that Heaven does not zoom in on the “pretty” and forget the “ugly.” It finds the pretty amidst even the ugliest of things.
So dear friends, family and followers, I apologize if I’ve made you think it’s always elephant excursions and cute kids out here on the World Race. The idealist in me wishes it were always as pictured below.
I’m learning slowly but surely that my eyes need to continue searching for that Heavenly perspective and I invite you to do the same.
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