Cemetery Girls, new direction...
i just need to talk out loud a little bit. i hit a new level of understanding about the vision of my novel today. it is a bit of a breakthrough in some ways. i photographed a teenage girl in the actual cemetery where my story takes place. THIS is what my entire "Cemetery Girl" photo project has been about. enabling me to have a real vision of what my character truly may have looked like. this girl, Kim, is the daughter of one of my oldest acquaintances from high school. Kim is the exact age of my novel's main character, and even though she does not look exactly like i imagine my character's looks to be, capturing her today, walking into this cemetery for the first time ever helped me imagine in a very realistic sense just what it may have felt like for my character the first time she stepped foot here. whether i will do more work with Kim in the cemetery later, or if I will entirely change the focus of who i shoot for this project to be just teenage girls, i don't...