Tomiko Jones

Going through Tomiko Jones photos, this one seemed to be the most compelling to me. At first it appears as though it is just a photograph of a bride in the middle of the desert, with a bunch of foot prints within the sand. Looking at the footprints, can be slightly deceiving at first, because of the fact that they just end...in the middle of the desert, with nothing at the end of the trail. In reality, this would be impossible. Looking at the footprints in regards to the photo and the bride actually make a lot of sense. When a woman gets married, she is leaving one chapter behind her, and beginning a new one with her soon to be spouse. Looking at the photograph, it seems as if the footprints represent the bride as her last steps before she says her vows, and officially ends the past chapter of her life. The reason why the footprints end in the middle of nowhere is quite simple. They end like that because when anyone makes a major commitment, like marriage, you begin a new chapter in life...which means the prints that she leaves behind her will be different than the ones she leaves now, as an unmarried woman. The other reason the footprints do not appear is simply because when you start a new chapter in your life, you have no idea where you will be going or the journeys that will follow. It is the unknown, as are the continuing footprints, that are not visible to the eye ..yet.