There's no such thing as a bad photograph.
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.
Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?
Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)
A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE
I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.