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| Bokeh forever Dryden, ON December 2024 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
I had weirdly developing hips, and spent lots of time in hospital. I remember staring out the window for hours at a time, day and night, the Montreal landscape playing out below my 6th floor perch.
I also remember learning how to unfocus my eyes, and how fascinating everything looked when I deliberately made it blurry. It was especially trippy at night, the lights of the city melting into overlapping, multicoloured shapes.
Then as now, blurriness wasn’t necessarily something to be avoided. If you screwed your eyes up just so, the world became a wonderland - which, to a kid in a decidedly frightening place, turned out to be something of a self-made blessing.
Fast forward a few decades and that admittedly odd childhood experience continues to echo in my everyday life. When I shoot with my camera-camera, I’ll often pop the lens into manual focus mode, then deliberately throw it out of focus. The fuzzier the better.
I guess it’s my way of remembering what it was like to learn to see things through a different lens.
Because not everything needs to be perfectly precise.
Because in a world that doesn’t always play fair, it’s perfectly acceptable on occasion to see things not as they are, but as we want them to be.
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