Maisie East Reflective Journal

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Why Moments Matter

http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/spike-jonze-on-making-her.html

2563 by Todd Hido

“It feels like a memory,” [Spike Jonze] says, raising his fingers toward the photograph. “The mood of a day without the specifics. A memory of this girl, in this beautiful, funny forest.”

When Jonze started to write his newest film, he made a small editorial addition to the image—a ragged piece of a yellow Post-it note that he stuck on the glass over the photograph. Then he took it off, replaced it with another, and then another. On the one that he finally decided felt right, he had written three lowercase letters in black marker: her.

Hide’s work is often describes as dark and unsettling, I don’t see it in this way so much. To me it feels wistful, theres a sense of longing and nostalgia that seeps out of them. To me they feel hopeful, and realistic. Reflecting a breadth of emotions. Almost every house feels like it could be his childhood home and many of his portraits feel like somebody close to him. 

For example the photograph above, who is it? A daughter or girlfriend past or present? It feels like a memory and asks a lot of questions as you cannot see her face but attention is draw to her hair being moved by the breeze against the subtle background. It feels like longing.