Pictures Sound Better with You

My friend Kevin has taken to naming my photos on Instagram .  His method is simply taking the name of the song he is currently listening to and then posting it into the comments when a photograph of mine catches his attention . I had never given my photographs names in the past - they are generally titled after the models that appear in them or simply "untitled" when a name is forgotten (for better or for worse). My reason for never giving them more then that is I did not want to influence anyone viewing my work into seeing something definitive . Knowing only what I was seeing when I looked through the lens it surprises me that the titles he gives them are generally so spot-on ;  Amy's blonde curls illuminating yellow in foggy sunlight ("Conjure") ,  Brandy's mind is somewhere else while her head lies resting in an angel's lap ("We Knew Him Well") , and Everett's ability to open one eye as the water pulses down on his naked body ("Teach The Blind To See").
     

  More uncannily, these descriptions are made by a man who I have known for only a year , and one that I am limited to only having brief conversations with . The main things we discuss are music, art and Cacey, the incredible woman we both love .  Knowing full well that these are three subjects that can be endlessly discussed we avoid getting off track with other subjects .We undoubtedly have other passions like books , movies and television but we both know there is not enough time in this life to even begin those subjects. When we talk , I can feel like a child  who just came home from a trip to Disney World  .
       ".. And I saw Mickey , Goofy and Donald and I rode Splash Mountain and Teacups and I ate candy and saw Stitch and rode on Haunted Mansion and I wasn't scared and......." I say without catching my breath even once.
         To be fair , this is what I sound like as an adult who just came home from Disney World but , my enthusiasm is met by his own.It is likely that enthusiasm that allows me to do exactly what I was preventing others from doing , letting a verbal passage guide my thoughts to see something that may or may not be there. Kevin marrying my images to music resulted in an inspired image I created that could probably pass as an album sleeve for a new wave act from the nineteen -eighties. Written in Japanese , it roughly translates to "I want my pictures to sound like music", which is to say, hear what you want to hear but feel every beat.