“A well-directed sitting will have something of the quality of a good plan - a constant building and development of tension and excitement. The interest of the model and artist should both be carried along in the current of common enthusiasm. To make the sitting move in this way, the artist must work, must give of himself. An artist who finishes a sitting with his respiration, pulse and the part of his hair unaltered, has probably obtained very poor results. ”
My hair's perpetually rumpled anyway, but that Mortensen quote pretty much sums up what the last few months have been like. I've managed to injure myself at least slightly on pretty much every single shoot I've done. For a while there, I was walking into class with a new bandage each week.
Some shoots gave me lasting scars. All of them gave me great memories.
“When it hurts to take the shot, you know you’re in exactly the right place.”