Gestures

Recently I am drawn to the gestures of things we do not automatically think of as in movement; e.g., hard objects, such as concrete, asphalt, cement walls. I will wait for a red-light so I can rush into a crosswalk and quickly photograph a tire burn. A parking garage with its scrapes and marks, its fading or disintegrating paint, can keep me photographing for hours. I find that the "gestures" of these unlikely and undistinguished objects can convey emotion, feeling, energy; they can awaken my senses and interest. In the psychology world, I once had a consultant who said to me, "Everything is worth our attention, even the seemingly meaningless."