where I had beautiful ideas for photographs
these ideas were so original and detailed
down to the fabric i would be wearing
when i mean original it was like i was litterally coming up with them in my sleep
in this dream i was employed at an office building down town
and while it was filled with cubicles it was in a historic location
and was equipped with a beatiful bathroom that had never been remodeled
This bathroom had black and white checkered tile
a huge claw foot tub
and black and white fixtures
In this dream it was expected of me to take senior pictures
like you do when you're a highschool senior
and send them in my invitation to my grad party
the ideas came to me like ideas do in real life
one step at a time
first with the thought that taking a black and white photograph of someone taking a bubble bath in that tub would be quite striking
next why not do that for my graduation picture?
but i couldn't do it naked!
would the bubbles be enough to cover me up?
my family is much to conservative to appreciate getting a suggestive picture of me in the mail
and i would not be all too comfortable letting someone be in the same room with me with a camera in the buff
so a swimsuit!
beige? so i would still appear naked?
no... black!
so i would be even more striking against all the white porceline
it would have to be a clingy bunched material with a boy cut
and on top strapless
I would do one photograph standing with one leg up on the tub
and my hands on my hip
looking proud of myself
wearing black high heals?
it would add to the effect...
but maybe my mom wouldn't allow it
i would need to ask
i would wear my hair down and curly
the camera angle would be a shot upword at me
as if to say 'I concured college!'
which might not be a flattering angle...
so i was worried how it would actually turn out
The next picture might be the most beautiful
I would be laying in the tub with a book
my legs would be up resting against the lip of the oppposite side of the tub in the heals
crossed at the ankle
would i wear the black heals i already have? or go buy even more dramatic ones?
the camera would be very far away so that you could see the whole bathroom
the claws
the tiles
the sink
all the details
with me taking a luxerious bubble bath
i wanted to finger paint 'I graduated'
onto the front of the tub
this picture would symbolise that i was ready to relax after a hard run at college
i worried about finding figerpaint that i was sure wouldn't be too hard to use
and to get off
The next picture would be a close up of my face
i would be laying in the tub with my head turned toward the camera
i would be wearing bright red lipstick
with my hair in a bun
i decided i would buy a bumpits to make it a dramatic bun
in my dream i thought about asking the photographer to edit this photo so that my while everything else was black and white my lips would remain red
now that im awake i think back that that might be creepy clownish
I awoke with the sad realization that you do not have to take senior pictures in college
i was really dissappointed because in my mind this was a semi plausable idea
fairly easy to accomplish - get permission to use tub, buy a swimsuit that matched my vision, buy a bumpits, use washable finger paint
and wallah - vogue quality photographs for everyone of me!
my second sad realization was that even if i wanted to take these pictures for the hell of it
this bathroom that had existed
existed only in my mind
i know of no such place in reality
I thought of perhaps trying to draw what i had in my mind
but i knew that would be no good
they were charming in the way only a black and white photograph can be.