Is it that we are so insecure as creatives that we need to wear the same uniform? You know you’re wearing it right now, look around the studio too - black jacket (usually Italian leather of course), black shirt, blue jeans, black bag, black shoes (Italian too) - OR - black jeans instead of blue. As creatives we strive to be individual, free thinkers, critical, cynical, and yet we really are just sheep. Is our ego so easily bruised, are personality so denuded, if we dare to wear a bit of colour? - “will they talk about me around the water cooler”. As I looked around Surry Hills this morning - I looked just like everyone else - I was a Holden (almost as common as a silver Mercedes) - “it’s like an arse, everyone’s got one”. Then Rudi from Rising Sun Pictures said to me this morning, “Andrew you really look the part of a photographer today”. My immediate internal reaction was, NOOOOOO!! Why can’t we wear a little bit of our personality on our sleeve? We so easily conform, are so stuck in the routine, are so bloody uniform.
Tomorrow….I’m wearing a red shirt!
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[Masthead Credit: Image WL330024482, by Andrew Stephenson. St Peters lane way graffiti, inner city Sydney, New South Wales, Australia]