What to do...

So today i felt really frustrated with everything. I don't know if it's senioritis, but i fell like i'm running out of ideas for photography and making art in general. My problem is that i second guess my work before i even start making it. I need help with this! Because i feel like i need to be asking questions about every little thing in my work (ex: what does that color mean? why it is shot this way? who are you referencing?) i never even want to begin. And what happened to asthetics? Can we really not just like the way something looks visually? I do understand why photographs that have a deeper meaning are going to be more interesting in the end, but i need to start somewhere and i feel like i am tired of starting with some gigantic concept and trying to photograph it.
Well besides all of that, i am thinking of a few ideas but i don't really have concepts for them yet. I was thinking of doing these painterly looking potraits. i guess bringing up Kahlo the other day reminded me how much i always wished i could paint and i think i could get a really cool effect photographing something that looked like a painting. I really like surrealism and i would like to somehow introduce it into my work. Anyway those are my ideas for now...

Inspiring Artists

I know that this is not a photographer, but painter Frida Kahlo inspires me. I realize that she is an over used artist, but i can't help but love her paintings and her life. Her paintings are so complex and at the same time simple and this is something that I strive for in my photographs. I like her style and use of vibrant colors to tell her story. She mostly inspires me because of the honesty in her paintings. She seemed to use her work to help her through life and relationships. I always want to use my work in that way and i often look at her work as a guide.
Over the summer i read The Bell Jar and I became very inspired by Sylvia Plath as well. Again I appriciate the use of her life directly in her writing. In the same way Kahlo twists her reality to make something beautiful, Plath uses her life and her problems to make beautiful poems.