Creating work every week, I was surprised at how little the work changed once I got to a certain point in its development. Actually, right from the conception of the glowing figure, the work began to stagnate. I can only think that the work languished because I didn't want to abandon what I felt, at the time, was a successful recipe. I really liked my first few pictures stylistically and formally, but they were incomplete conceptually. Only in the last few weeks did I begin to change the relationship of the glowing man and myself. He became a manifestation of my own personal struggle with religion, but the details of that struggle came through only with the use of very specific propping, as opposed to the man himself or how he addressed me. The decisions of style and format for the work were whimsical and spontaneous, but assigning the specific role of the glowing man was one of labored thought and reasoning. In the future, I either need to give it more thought or surrender to spontaneity. Steven Goodwine, BFA Photography Junior UIUC