Week 4 / Normalcy / Tyler García

Normalcy

For my photo for this week's blog I've decided to use one that I took on my "Daily State Approved Outdoor Walk" as my roommate and I have been calling it while we walk our dog.  This shot really stuck out to me for a number of reasons, and I think the biggest one was the lightly Spanish influenced house that I found in the middle of Orange County, California.  For someone that grew up in a desert in the middle of nowhere, where everything was Spanish influenced buildings, and family owned Mexican restaurants, seeing something that reminded me of home was very compelling.  Being stuck in my house, and not being able to see my family, especially because my mom is an immune-compromised person, has made me very homesick recently; wanting something that I know I can't have has been very difficult.

For this photo in particular, the looming shadow of the tree over the bright yellow of the building felt very calling to me; the shadow seeming to overtake what I can't have, and the pockets of light reminding me that although I will be able to get it sometime, who knows when the shadows will part and we'll be able to leave our homes and go outside again.  Who knows when we'll return to a sense of normalcy, or whatever normal-adjacent the world becomes after all of this is eventually over. One can only hope that we will soon return to something that is at least next to normal.