Gemini
blogAs a child, my family and I would often sit around the dinner table reading our horoscopes to one another, hoping to get an insight into what the Gods had in store for us. We did so with an air of skepticism, knowing that it couldn’t possibly be true but being occasionally struck by an uncanny coincidence. I suspect part of the pleasure came from hearing something about your life that you wanted to believe.
For instance, I was fascinated by the positive attributes that Geminis were supposed to have:
- Intellectual
- Charming
- Entertaining
- Upbeat
- Witty
- Attention-loving
- Creative
- Energetic
- Imaginative
- Outgoing
- Optimistic
- Clever
- Dynamic
- Youthful
How could they possibly know me so well? Something I felt even more when I looked at the supposed negative traits:
- dualistic
- self-interested
- restless
- over-stimulated
- fickle / inconsistent
- impatient
- vain
- critical
- boastful
- ego-oriented
- tricky
- temperamental
- “two-faced”
- insensitive
- mercurial
Is it possible that by seeing these attributes at an early age they came a self-fulfilling prophecy? It almost certainly informed my photo experiments of a few years ago, where I confronted myself with myself in various ways. For a while, this mode of photography became my thing, but until yesterday I hadn’t done one for ages. It was only after Wringham suggested that I dust down my tripod for one last photo shoot that I remembered how much I enjoy it.
The ones I did with him will appear soon enough, but until then here’s some of me that I took to replace my embarrissingly unrepresentative old facebook picture.
