an ordinary day

there is always an excuse not to take up a creative challenge. today, my son’s soccer team played two games and won a tournament, and my mom stopped by to debrief about some family drama, bringing dinner with her. it was a perfect day just to accept that nothing creative would get done. but i am in year seven of this crazy project, and so i did not see the soccer tournament, and by the time my mother had come over, i had taken these photos of a giant african land snail shell, and a day that should have been perfunctory turned into a day of image-making that i am particularly proud of, and that is what happens on those days when you just make it happen, and expectations are low, and you don’t give yourself an excuse.

giant african land snail shells