I’ve been thinking a lot about timing recently. I saw a photo of my father a few months ago just days before my birthday. The photo was of him holding me coming home from the hospital but the unique thing about seeing this photo, seemingly coincidentally, was that in it he was the same age I was turning just days later. It put things into a different perspective for me. I started to imagine the start of my life and the next phase of his. I started to think about how drastically I’ve changed in the past 10 years, 5 years and last year. I started to think about plans I made or intentions I had set or what I was looking for in those times. It set a perspective of how unprepared we can be until we are experiencing whatever we didn’t think we could manage. I heard a little quote the other day that said “there is no path until you walk it” and it made things seem so manageable. I always think, in retrospect, it’s alright that the things I wanted didn’t come right away when I thought I wanted them because I’m better equipped now to handle them. This is an interesting moment that I’m experiencing where the feeling of being a depressed lonely artist is fleeting because I’m becoming more and more confident in who I am and what I’m about as both an artist and a man. I think what I’m trying to say in my work will always continue to change and hopefully grow but I’m less afraid of the unknown of what that will be. Thank you @avellanophoto for taking this image and @paoloalfante for the lighting and mood. #portrait #losangeles #joshtelles