Countdown Post #4 - My mother the hard-core gamer

I ALMOST didn't get this one posted in time again! It's not that I didn't shoot the project though, I was just too busy to post.

You see, I was doing this...
Something I've been meaning to do for a long time is reshoot an assignment I did when I was studying analog photography. It was a series of environmental portraits I took of my mom playing the piano in her living room, a very meaningful project to me. I love the film shots I got, but I have no way to scan them myself, so I figured I would just do it again with digital.

For anyone who's ever tried to redo something they did pretty well in the first place - I'm sure they'll agree that its TOTALLY DEMORALIZING!! I didn't get very far, and I wasn't shoooting very thoughtfully, because it just didn't sit right this time. The first time around it was a very profound experience for me (this is the artist talking...) and I found that while I was shooting I was really exploring who my mother was. This time, it didn't seem as real...





A little while into the shoot, I discovered why. That was then, this is NOW (Again, a profound experience :P) I noticed that where once sat a Scrabble board that always had a game on-the-go (either between my parents or between my mom and herself), there was a new source of entertainment from an entirely different generation. Instead of Scrabble with a pair of my mom's reading spectacles (there can be no other name for them) sitting on top, here lay a brand new set of Wii remotes (which by the way, isn't even considered a WORD in the game of Scrabble yet). I thought it was hilarious. Below is a shot exactly the same as one I took in the last series, only this time remote replaces board.


I'm sure you'd all be very impressed to know that my mom bowls a 290 game (300 is a perfect score, for those of you less experienced bowlers, and is done by getting 10 strikes in a row), and plays at the PRO level. Go Mom!



Say hello to "maggie", my mom's Mii...