I took Shakespeare this past semester - I'm a Creative Writing Major at Chapman University - and really fell in love with his portrayal of women. Perhaps love is a strong word, but I was highly intrigued. We focused on the tragedies and romances, which were definitely my preferred genres. During the study of Othello our teacher was talking about how moving the murder of innocent Desdemona is, how stirring it is to watch a black man strangle the innocent women. The social implications and struggles inherent in our society take a volatile spin in such a context. You can immediately imagine where my head went: Gotta shoot that.
The intrigue does not stop at the tale of the Moor. I would love to do Ophelia, drowned among her flowers, and the previous descent into madness. Lady Macbeth, if paired with the right male model, would also be tremendous. I can most certainly entertain the idea of happier plots - A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, etc. These suggestions need not remain bound to their originating time frame and setting. It tickles my macabre side to picture the same stirring themes in a contemporary world of sin, tossed into a futuristic cyber space, or even thrown back into more primal times. Clearly my head still wanders with these concepts, but multiple interpretations also allows for different collaborators. So even if this idea does come to fruition, I'd be more than happy to sew seeds in other soils too and savor the subtle differences.
Another picture from Josh Lyon today. I promise I'll start mixing it up before too long, but as I rekindle my modeling aspirations, its fantastically fulfilling and humbling to remind myself of these roots. This was one of those more daring shots, done in a park in downtown Santa Ana. Literally as we walked away, three cops turned around the corner. It will take more than that to scare me off!
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