So How Should I Presume?

This is one of my prints from when I was enrolled in Black and White Print Photography last summer, and is my first meaningful still life photograph.

The message is not intended to be anti-gun, but rather anti-violence, and was taken shortly after the massacre at Virginia Tech, which is what inspired me to take this. I stayed home that day from school and just so happened to be watching the news when the first reports were released. I was glued to the TV the rest of the day.

Although I don't personally know anyone who was affected by the tragedy, it still hit close to home and made me realize how vulnerable I am every time I step on campus, or even anywhere else for that matter. That night my thoughts wandered onto these lines from my favorite poem, and my reflections brought new meaning to them.

"I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?"
-T.S. Elliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock