Wish you were here!

..:::....::.My Drug induced friends all wish you were here, or there, or wherever they are...

I wanted to turn the traditional postcard on its head so i started working backwards.

I thought of what a traditional postcard tells us? It a romanticised image, partly for advertising the tourism industry and party to tell, whoever it is they're sending it to, that here is much better than there.

So i thought about putting those in reverse, a statement that says "don't come here" and "there is much better than here".

but that would simply give me a rainy day, or a area of the world i simply would not want to go, but the problem is I already know I don't want to go there. with world news coverage we know where we don't want  to go and places we do.

So i then thought about places we've been tempted to go to at some point, but wouldn't go to for whichever reason. I looked at Places and landmarks, spoke to some people but the only thing I'm coming up with are places like Afghanistan and Iraq. Which, to me, is like my first idea. So I had to divert away from places and I came into state of minds. Drugs.

I cannot vouch for everyone but some have ventured into the world of drugs. It's overly glamorised with people acting like idiots but with a huge grin on their face! 

So i went out and spoke to some people i know who take drugs. the impression i got is that they make you feel brilliant for a short while but then you don't feel so great.

I took a few pictures of them on drugs but some were not so happy for me to put this on my work so unfortunately some of the images above are not people i've met on the drug. The whole situation was quite shocking really, and slightly surreal and comical. i decided to try and portray this in the text that I used.

Originally i wanted to then turn this into a 7 deadly sin's idea but, for me, these images really sum up the whole experience so i decided to keep them as they are::..:::..::......