(embiggenable) • iPhone
(embiggenable) • iPhone
(embiggenable) • iPhone
AS OF TODAY, A ROUGH COUNT OF the number of pictures I have made over the last 16-17 years is 24,873. Of that number, approximately 15,542 are iPhone pictures (most made over the last 3 years), 7,831 were made with "real" cameras and 1,500 (a very conservative estimate) are Polaroid pictures.
While a relatively small number of those pictures have been culled from the herd and organized in separate body-of-work folders-see my WORK page on this site for examples of some, but not all categories-I am hopelessly deficient in my culling activities. And, to be honest, how I am going to be able to get this situation under some sort of control is beyond my reckoning at this point.
Most of my separate body of work categories-categories titled by theme or picture making intent-have been, or are able to be, edited down to a maximum of 60-80 pictures. Although, I do continue to make pictures for each of those bodies of work, so there is the need for constant updating. It could be written with reasonable assurance that most of the bodies of work on my WORK page could edited and updated with a significant number of new pictures, AKA; out with some of the old, in with some of the new.
That written, the real back breaker problem in editing my total body of work is creating and editing a single body of work titled DISCURSIVE PROMISCUITY. A title which, to be precise, quite accurately encompasses all of my picture making activity....
discursive ~ digressing from subject to subject.
promiscuity ~ 1. demonstrating or implying an undiscriminating or unselective approach,
2. consisting of a wide range of different things.
.... consequently, a body of work titled DISCURSIVE PROMISCUITY would, indeed, be a very large body of work. If I were to want to put the work in book form, it would probably, guess wise, have to be a 20 volume (minimum?) set with 50 pictures per book. And, I must admit, writing about doing it that way seems to make the getting there less intimidating.
If you might be wondering how a large collection of pictures of anything and everything might hang together as a cohesive body of work, that's the subject of my next entry.