Taking a self-portraiture class this semester, and the first assignment was the theme of "sleep."
And, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" has been rolling in the back of my mind, a play largely about dreams. While the A-plot is focused on the four young lovers, as I get older, it's the mechanicals' B-plot that I find more compelling. The mechanicals dream to go outside their assigned stations, to be actors rather than tradesmen.
Pansies, or love-in-idleness as the play calls them, is giving magical properties via Cupid's arrow, creating infatuation with the first thing the anointed person sees. The line "And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind" (1.1.235) is stuck in my mind to such a degree that I always imagine the god blindfolded.
❥ Lomography Diana F+ camera, handheld
❥ Lomography Color Negative 400 (120 format)
❥ 55mm plastic lens with plastic closeup lens
❥ Approximately 1 minute exposure