All the Little Things
Funny isn’t it, how you don’t
recognise the importance of something until it’s no longer there.
As a very visual learner, I work best when presented with images that I can garner information from. As part of Douglas’ workshop, we analysed a series of black and white images to see what information we could learn about the people who were in them. Everything that we could tell about these individuals was found in the small details, the little things. All the tiny, minute differences between the way they stood, the way they smiled or didn’t and the direction of their focus told us something about them as a person making the picture come to life and their story seam more real, more human.
I think it would be fair to say we
have all been feeling rather like that lately, with Lockdown, phased
restrictions and lives turned upside down by an invisible virus. We find
ourselves missing things that previously, we took for granted, like being able to
brush past someone in the street or stop for a chat in Tesco’s when doing are
weekly shop.
But I find myself missing more,
missing smaller but now, far more significant things. The way my grandparents’
glasses change colour in the sunlight, the way my friend gasps for breath when
she can’t stop laughing, the sound my colleague’s, the sight of sunlight
streaming in through the Church’s stain glassed windows…None of these things
are what I would have expected to miss going into lockdown, but now somehow,
these previously insignificant details of day to day life are what I miss most.
It was during a workshop with Douglas
Maxwell that the importance of all the little things really came into focus.
As a very visual learner, I work best when presented with images that I can garner information from. As part of Douglas’ workshop, we analysed a series of black and white images to see what information we could learn about the people who were in them. Everything that we could tell about these individuals was found in the small details, the little things. All the tiny, minute differences between the way they stood, the way they smiled or didn’t and the direction of their focus told us something about them as a person making the picture come to life and their story seam more real, more human.
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| Douglas Maxwell - workshop images |
And that’s when it hit me. It’s only
right that we miss the little things, because it is these minute ideocracies
that make us who we are. Never was a truer word spoken than the quote ‘the
devil is in the detail.’
As I continue on my playwriting
journey, I will endeavour to show off these little things that make us, us and
hopefully through my writing, I will be able to make us all feel a little more
human in amongst the chaos that is life!
Lauren Asher
Lauren is part of the Bunbury Banter Young Playwrights Programme 2019-2020
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