Simplicity and Minimalism

(Warning: Wordy pretension upcoming.)

I used to write stories. I believed very intensely in a fixed third person narrator. I thought that using such a narrator - which couldn’t tell the reader about the reasons behind a character’s actions - was more effective at establishing mystery and plot than anything else that I could do. I was probably wrong. But writing with that particular type of narrator very much limited what I could and couldn’t do.

Now, I’ve started taking photographs, and the pictures that I like the most are always, always, the simplest. In the above picture, there are only three things: the sky, the tree, and the grass. For me, that is enough.

Others, I know, produce work of incredible complexity. Good for them. But I’m not capable of such things. I believe that there is beauty in the simplicity of things, and I suppose that is what I want to try to pursue.