Inside Looking Out

Photography Assignment (Explanation at the end):

Life inside the musicbox ain't easy
The mallets hit
The gears are always turning

And everyone inside the mechanism
Is yearning to get out

And sing another melody completely
So different from the one they're always singing

I close my eyes and think that I have found me
But then I feel mortality surround me
I want to sing another melody
So different from the one I always sing

-Music Box, Regina Spektor

This is my photography blog post for the week. Our theme for the week was storefronts or professions. We were also challenged to be more creative with our essay, and try to stay away from the personal narrative which most of us have being doing so far.

I obviously choose storefronts as my subject. It's a little odd, but I decided to show the life of a mannequin. If mannequins were conscious they would be stuck and forced to live day in and day out in the same poses. It kind of goes back to the whole "I wonder if my toys come alive after I go to sleep?" thing that we all wondered when we were little kids. Or those movies where kids get sneak in a department store after hours and have some crazy fun adventure. Having personally been stuck in a mall after hours, I can attest to you it is not fun, you do not have wonderful adventures. You get hot, frustrated, and bored pretty fast, hence my sympathy for the mannequins, lol.

For the text, I paired the photos with the song Music Box by Regina Spektor ( I wish I could provide a link here so you could listen instead of just reading some of the lyrics) where she talks about being stuck inside a music box forced to repeat the same song over and over. Hopefully people get it... if not at least they get introduced to a great Regina Spektor song, lol.

Currently listening to: La Ballade of Lady and Bird, and Maurane