Metaphor
The Call: Traffic Sign Truth — Jessica
“Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we’re experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It’s not only how we express what we remember, it’s how we interpret it — for ourselves and others.” Twyla Tharp
Response: Coffee Spoon — Cheryl
…For I have known them all already, known them all: —
have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; …
— T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Photography and poetry are magnifying glass and lightbulb: one helps you find the details you look at everyday but never see; the other illuminates those dark corners you seldom venture into.
Jessica, I love the way your mind works. That sign is a perfect metaphor for life.