She loved where my work with reflections was going, and said I should continue them. To answer "everybody does reflections" she told me to remember that honestly everything has been done before so I should just carry on.
I felt my recent work was a jumble of dissimilar imagery, because I have been trying out new things. But she said all my work is really talking about the same things: Impermanence and Possibilities. She said the best of my reflections talk about possibility, going beyond where you are, seeing things in a new way, and stepping into new worlds. She said my newer work is about looking back while knowing you can never go back. She said the combination speaks of the transience of time.
She told me that I am "not a photographer's photographer", and my answer was that for me photography is just another crayon in the box. She was happy with that answer, and said that my advisor, John, was absolutely correct when he told me to do other forms of artwork this semester along with my photography. But she was also excited where my photography was going. She showed me other photographers, particularly William Christenberry who does sculpture, painting, and drawing along with his photography. the other photographers she told me to look at were Fredrick Sommers, David Armstrong, and Seaton Smith. She is going to email a few more names for whom she couldn't remember the proper spelling.
She also told me I should try using a 4 X 6 view camera for some of my imagery. This response was triggered in particular by my "Self Portrait" below:
She also said I might consider pairing photographs together that seemingly have nothing to do with one another, like these two:
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