LIFE IS ART BY Ella Don

LIFE IS ART

LIFE IS ART 3:32 am my eyes lie awake in another bed of a hotel, Airbnb or guest room of a shared apartment. It's been a long time since I lay calmly in my bed without a carousel of thoughts and fell asleep without a care in the world.

The path we tread leads to the common goal on different ways.

We long for freedom.

A muse is an illumination of the senses at an undefined time in an undefined place, like a serotonin boost while skydiving. The longing for the next Big Think, makes the everyday normality more and more forgotten. Everyday life seems monotonous and colorless when you're actually ready for something bigger. After a creative hole I found myself in for three years, I got tired of looking at 1000 magazines and playing the good old copy & paste game. I neglected my favorite activities and hid behind classic fake and "hey guys I'm still alive" posts on my SocialMedia channels. What if you run out of breath after 15 brilliant years of art and photography? You feel empty. I came to the point of filling this emptiness not only with my great love for fascinating people and their story.

I thought I had to live a normal life and be a normal person, however, I gradually felt worse and worse about it. Maybe it is not so important to adapt to society, even if it often makes life seem easier. But what would life be without drama, without stories to tell and without the freedom to redefine yourself. To get a little closer to yourself.

I used to go on a crazy trip across the world, trying things out just to know what it was like to do what you thought was right at the time.

Maybe, or very likely, it wasn't always right for me or other people. But how, if not like this, do you find your own self-determined path. It always feels better when you've made it yourself than when it's just given to you.

The way there and the blossoming of a being unknown to myself, which has struggled happily and unadapted for years, now fights on happier and not much more adapted. It rediscovers old things, does not make a drama out of the past and it feels. Because what fascinated me from the beginning was the art of seeing something special in everyone. Not to judge anyone, but to give people the belief in themselves and to move on. Because each of us has at some point or somewhere the responsibility for other people in whom we believe no matter what they have done before or will do. If we don't believe in ourselves, then we can't believe in others.

Photography has accompanied me through various stages of my life and describes countless events in my life. The basic phenomenon of this passion is the fact of capturing the moment and making the best possible out of it. To give something to someone without much fuss. Purposefully capture exactly the current moment. A documentation of time in pictures. I see myself as a collector of the moments of past traits of time. You leave behind the old and discover yourself anew.

There is not only this one moment that you capture. There are hundreds. Every time I take a picture of a moment, I remember more than just that picture. It starts to live through everything that happened in that moment of capture.

It's not the same when you take a selfie of yourself presenting yourself. When you are photographed, it is a different and own revelation. You have to trust your counterpart to create the most authentic result for that moment. Thus, one reflects oneself in that moment. Honest and undistorted. The art of photography is not just to take a good picture.

There is much more behind it. Light, mood, music, emotions, life experience, history, the place and the environment. Even in the most unusual places you can create a wonderful ambience.

There are people who often stand in front of me and say they are not photogenic. But that's just ingrained in people's minds and what eyes they would like to see themselves with. But the right environment, light and mood can easily dissolve this view by engaging with the moment and letting yourself be guided without worry. The setting within is therefore a very sensitive, but also fascinating subject.

ELLA DON: "After many years working as a photographer, born in the 90s, 6000 km east, raised in Germany, I became a freelance creative director in 2014 for various companies worldwide. In mid 2020, after a long and ongoing search, I decided to start 1337studios."

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