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My name is Holly Blackmore & I'm a 20-year-old yogi / analogue photographer from the east coast of Australia. The concrete birthed me; these mountains raised me.
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Five Things I Learnt From Deleting Instagram
1. It’s like that graffiti, ‘No one really cares if you don’t go to the party’. People would tag me in things for maybe a fortnight after I went inactive, then it was silent. Your online presence is a facade, most people only engaging with it on near-surface levels.
2. Aesthetics can be debilitating (maybe it’s a Virgo thing) if you give them space/permission to be. I’d spend hours working out what image should go next in my grid, tinkering with VSCO cam. It’s taken a long time but I’m slowly learning how to let go of such perfectionist pursuits.
3. More of a question, but - why do we give others so much permission to comment upon our lives? If your Instagram post is seen, maybe liked, it has been (subconsciously) compared to every image on the viewer’s feed before it. You are not any of these people. Your individual journey should not be subjected to such contextual gratification.
4. Man, that app has a hold on us. The withdrawals are fucking real. Social media is inspiring, transformative - no doubt. I just keep having to remind myself that my mental health is thanking me, my eyes and skin and body are thanking me for stepping away.
5. I’d been in a pretty deep creative rut for almost eighteen months, but that disappeared almost immediately. Now words just seem to flow out of my head, and I find myself writing on sticky notes, on the backs of receipts, wherever and whenever inspiration strikes. This is a huge one for me - the main reason why I don’t see myself going back anytime soon.
What does your relationship with Instagram look like? Is there anything you want to change?
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A collection of analogue images from a recent trip to Nepal.
The mountains loom large from the windows of the plane & larger still from the banks of the river. It’s hard to comprehend the sheer size of them. This land seems to deliver so many lessons. The sun rises early & sets before dinner. The slopes seem insurmountable. We keep climbing.
It’s been a year of shedding layer after layer. Taking the time & space I need to understand myself on the deepest of levels. And man, it feels good to find alignment. Perhaps the most profound experience was my first solo journey overseas, exploring a new nook of this physical realm with like-minded travellers. Trusting the process & letting go of limiting tendencies.
I stole a few minutes to take my journal down to a quiet spot & get up to date. A kitten meowed from the rafters of a foreign structure, and the hills fell away before my crossed legs. It was soothing to just have some time-space to myself, and actually hear myself think for the first time on the trip. It helps for me to take time to delve inwards, in order to project outwards. I stretched my back up tall and inhaled deeply.
Read the full article here; https://www.warrantmagazine.com/travel/land-of-the-rising-sun
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