This image is inspired by a number of things... (and yeah, I know I've been submitting a lot of stuff lately...sorry.)

This is a self-portrait of me, on a typical walk back home from school. I had walked home on Monday, on my street... and in the quiet, in the stillness of a cool, grey day, I felt very spiritual... Like I was alone in the world. The crisp breeze...the smell of wet earth... my footsteps the only noise, it was very surreal. I often feel like that when I walk. Sort of washed out of reality, contemplative. It's rather hard to describe. The grey-ness of the image hence, is significant, because it's like the expression "grey zone".. where things are ambiguous, hard to define. I realize that the background is cheezy... and the negative effect is often over-used. Thing is though, I actually had planned it like that in my head, to indicate how loosely connected I felt with reality on that particular day. It was like I could see things, but I was detached from them. Anyway.

I wasn't sure if I should put this up, beause it's not one of my best visual works, not the most original... but it means more to me than a lot of the pics I do. Incidentally, it was also an exercise of fabric, lol. (My long winter coat is like that... and it's thick, which I find hard to illustrate.) The background is actually an image of the street I live on, as well.

Anyway... take this how you like. This is me "tout craché" as they say in French... (literally: "all spat out", but in this context, it means me "through and through." ) This image was also partially inspired by Yoko Kanno's "Walk in the Rain", from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, one of the deepest, most moving songs I know. I love it.

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Medium: Markers
Background: Photo I took