Wednesday, September 04, 2024

Not-quite-forgotten fish

I've got my eye on you
Port Stanley, ON
September 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram


I’ve taken entirely too many photos of dead fish in my lifetime.

At this point I can’t even properly answer the inevitable question: “Why?”

I guess it’s because scenes like this make me incredibly sad.

And in a society that seems to revel in turning the lens the other way when faced with scenes mainstream conscience deems taboo, I choose to follow a decidedly different strategy. Some things deserve to be seen and remembered, not shoved under the proverbial rug.

Like death. Or mental illness. Or homelessness. Or drug use in public. Whatever the subject, I feel the need to zoom in, even if it might give us a rumbly in our tumbly.

Apologies for the spontaneous Winnie the Pooh reference, but we don’t live in a world where comfort is always as close as a beloved bear from our childhood. Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes the landscape we walk is brutally ugly.

And I’d like to think we can navigate it more effectively if in our mind’s eye we know what it looks like to begin with.

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