OF WRITING, CINEMATOGRAPHY AND MY IDENTITY.

You don't always allow yourself to burn into incantations of passion before you hold your body and spiritual eyes in shadows of men of greatness. You don't need to prove to anyone that you were called to see beyond what they saw until you suspend the dice in the middle air. Sometimes we loose foundations because the contextual examination is the key through which hope is built within us. The key to understanding oneself is the ability to manage, control and see to the point where you are going to and from where you started from. Wisdom is not associated with beginners, wisdom is not proven by the grey hair one has until it is proven on a trapped situation. I got burnt some years ago, with a situtional drive holding a seasonal autumn of thoughts between my veteran dreams. I have thought of quitting all, I've thought letting go, I've always thought nothing was working even in the field of writing seeing the likes of Tomi Adeyemi And other budding writers of the same creating imageries larger than themselves, building bridge of spies seasoned characters.

I have always thought I was doing nothing in this field. I have always promised myself that i won't give up till a certain message which is intended is solely passed to a certain people out there. I was seeing it as a competition before, I was seeing writing as something that everyone can do but I came to realise that writing is not actually meant for children of all species. Everyone can write but there are those who are called to do this. I came to the realisation that it is not meant for children and this, led me to write "Writing is not for little children". Yes, Writing is not for little children. You have to bury yourself into many ashes of memories and still remain yourself and still maintain your directive prowess and identity and wit of power.

Since I'm from a country where it very impossible to make money as a writer, I craved to add myself into cinematic tale telling my story through cinematography, I wanted to turn my writings into visuals. I wanted people to see and watch what I have in mind. I wanted to make my characters move and have life of their own and their gifts not lost in the mind of my readers, I also wanted them to see these characters the way they are. I wanted them to remain just as memories in the heart of my viewers. I don't want to write but to create visuals and leave my characters in the mind of those people that have read and see them walk, talk or do things for themselves or for others, and this birthed Cinematography.

The closed ancestry dream of me holding words up on the face of the camera and direct how the sequences should be was something I always long to see myself doing and not breaking the worth of my identity because, it is the first rule of being human holding onto what you stand for. There is no separation between the three. There is no separation between John Chizoba Vincent as a cinematographer, John Chizoba Vincent as a Writer and the John Chizoba Vincent you see out there daily. My personality matters a lot to me and with all it takes, I'll try as much as I can to maintain it.

This is a passion combined with hope and laughter cluttered in the street of love. Redemption of the mind housing the muse of a sudden dew on the yew of my life. Writing and cinematography is an identity relating to the last drop of my breath. Even if the depression of the African sins reborn the episode of my seasoned story I will still have to write my life into poems of legacy, into journey of mercies trying not to complain about what life offers me.

Cinematography taught me how writing could colour the culture of my life, writing is the imageries larger than itself in the pages of jolted pixels. It is a reflection of what poetry embible in a deep heart of the universe. Hence, the only thing which shape my being is my ability to manage my mind building the world around me. Trying to create images which will last a lifetime. Trying to get the clear picture of what the world issues are and the best way to combat this. Art is life, no dispute about it . I have learned to build the bridge gradually even if its fading away from my inner court. This is what I stand for, what nature have deposited into me with the memories of my past. Cinematography has alot to do with me being alive, writing made me live again; why Cinematography has given me reasons to live life, writing has taught me that the universe and the life I live is writing itself. Writing has a way of making me see life in phases and the only bolt pattern of its handful goodness is to hold and engage yourself in yourself breaking mysteries and miseries of the world. When everyone is gone, it stays with you. Guide you through hell and heaven to ease out those unfixed love.

These two are my identity. These two are the way of my life. Gradually, I will be registering my name among the World Series of writers and cinematographers, and Directors someday in the book of history.

©John Chizoba Vincent
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