I wish I would be focused enough in my work to have influences to identify, especially literary ones. After all, I am about to have the grade of MA in literature...
I could more readily cite pictorial influences, but that's obvious. What has perhaps structured my thinking would be poets: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine. Those three have a strong sense of the concise image, strong impression, and the ability to sidestep predictable ways of writing.
For a while I was writing a lot of poetry, and did the local readings scene, but my interest eventually waned. Still, what I kept from doing that was the necessity to listen to your brain when it worked in ways you don't immediately understand. I try to recreate that inner feeling when I photograph, and try to connect between what I see and what's working below the surface. |