Milne Boys Home

So today I went out walking around my uncles old neighborhood that he lived in before Hurricane Katrina taking pictures for my Ogden homework, and I met up with Jose and he walked around with me for awhile while I was taking the pictures, and we went over to the old Milne Boys Home for me to take some shots of it, since it has some pretty amazing architecture. My whole life, that property had amazed me. I've never been quite sure why, but it has. There is a pull to it that I have, that I'm not sure where it is coming from. Before Katrina it just fascinated me, the way it was built, the way they arranged the buildings on the property. Now, 5 years after the storm, it hasn't been touched since Katrina.. No one has tried to restore it. No one has attempted to get anyone to restore it. It makes me sad to see such beautiful and sad buildings just sit there, abandoned.. My goal in life, now, is to save up enough money, that if no one ever restores it, I can, and I will re-open it as an orphanage. I want to restore those buildings so bad, it isn't even funny. I just got back home a little while ago from them, and I feel like my heart is aching to bring it back to it's original condition.

hmmmm . NYU or Williams ? ? Or Columbia or Conn College ? ? Or Azusa ? hmmm . . .

Soo. Ive spent the last two days scouring the internet and my friends minds on different colleges to add to my list of possible applications. Its making my life interesting, thinking about my future. I keep getting more and more into thought about what my life will be like once I graduate, especially since I'm now thinking about taking online courses this summer to skip a grade, making it one year less until I leave for college.. I'm not to sure about how I will take to this change, especially seeing as how I'm looking at schools so far away from home. New York, Massachusetts, California. Idk what's going to happen, but I guess that's all what these changing shadows are about, you never truly know which way they are going to go when you turn, or in what shape they will turn out. Imma just go with the flow, and see how it all ends up. I know God will take care of it.

So, my views on the world are changing. Every time I learn something new through an artist's work, it puts my mind into that area of perspective. When we went to the Ogden last week for my after school junior curators program, we studied 2 exhibits that were based off of Hurricane Katrina, and it made me start looking around and re-see how things have changed since the days before Katrina, the few months after, and now..  Also, today we looked at walker evan's architecture photos, and after we left, i couldnt help but notice everything in the style the buildings i passed held. it makes life so much more interesting to look at it from an artistic point of view. it changes the way you see things for the rest of your life. for me, everything is always a photograph.. something to store the moments that have passed.