W G Estrella

Humans fear what they don't understand, therefore i want to understand everything, and be fearless! - W G Estrella


When i was a child, Aside from being a rock star veterinarian astronaut, I wanted to be an established writer. I passed my days dreaming up stories and concepts. Writing, aside from music, was my life. However when i got older, i fell more into poetry, because of the beauty i could express with each sentence, as well as the abstraction it allowed. Though, when it came down to what i'd go to school for, writing lost favor to physics, for i thought it would be a much more stable career, besides that, i have always been good at it in one form or another... but alas, it was fucking boring! so after one semester i was pretty much done... so now there was this hole in my life in the form of the question "what do i do now?"... enter photography... now i did some photography when i was younger, but it was point and shoot. You see, back then photography to me, was all about just the art, the concepts, what the images meant to me... somehow i ended up in school for photography, after some people said i had an eye for it... This is where i was introduced to the physics behind the art, the way light reacts, and better yet, the so many different ways to manipulate it. i know most student hated this part, i relished every minute of it, especially after awhile when i was able to figure out the lesson taught to me before the professors even finished explaining what the demo was going to be about, because i finished the equations in my head in under a minute...

But, there was a slight downside, that being the fact that technical knowledge about what art "should be" is like cigarettes... it stumps your growth, and it's a habit i need to break... but unlike the pack of cowboy killers in my pocket, i have since been able to shed myself of the banality of "what art should be"... and i flourish in the mentality of "art is what i make it"...

I'm prepping right now for a new age in my work, dreaming up not only concepts, but each individual shot, in every aspect of it, even the most minute detail... cause if i showed what i see in my head, it wouldn't just change the industry, it will change the world...

I'm a poet with a camera, who is able to make light do whatever he pleases.... saying that the sky is the limit is a huge understatement, for i'm looking to go to the end of this universe, pass the threshold, and change your entire perception of divinity, and the way things are and why...

So if you really want to know, why i do what i do?
Well, some people shoot for art, others shoot for money, many try to mix the two... i'm shooting for the meaning of life, and then i'll work down from there...

Slainte!
W.G