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I will become a man made of bricks like most people advise me to do. Yeah...right. Sorry, but love is the mortar over here. I'm a falling down house without it.
"The best camera is the one that's with you" - became my motto this week, namely because my brain fog got the better of me (yay thyroid!). It is safe to say in the future I will check I actually packed my camera body...(I ended up going to London, a trip that this time did not involve a hospital trip but rather a trip entirely for fun and the intention to go shooting) with all my lenses I needed but not my trusty EM-5 as I left it at home (doh!), which basically meant I was carrying dead weight in the form of lenses with me. I'm thankful that the tech available these days meant I had a camera on hand albeit within my phone. Incidentally after visiting the Tate Modern's Shape of Light exhibition and the Tanks - No Ghost Just a Shell and Joan Jonas Reanimation installation (latter pictured ft. me) I felt a bit naked without a actual camera and ended up investing in a Holga 120N and two rolls of 120 film - Rollei Crossbird and Fomapan 200 from the Photographer's Gallery to use during the rest of the day.
This one has a story behind it. I usually pose in a very specific way for my self portraits but this time I decided to use the self timer. I was waiting for it to go off, I was looking for something I wanted this picture to show. I am working around my shadow self and that's the exact thought I had on the exact moment when I looked in the lens and the picture was taken. Now you see me looking at my shadow self, scared as I should be. Very fascinating way to see myself in this light.
An image of mourning for my beloved Japan.
May you rise again from these ashes in the days ahead.
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(No digital trickery here. Just 100% natural shadow bending on the walls.)
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Playing with #light and giving my shadow and accidental "high five!" #beyourownbeloved #nofilter #shadowself
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March 12, 2010
Today is my last full day here in Ohio...and I won't lie I'm thrilled. Being here has done nothing but depress me...and I plan on making the most of my last night in my own bed...oh my own room, how I will miss you. But only 2 more months of putting up with Teja and I'll be good to go...I hope.
Garry told me today that he found out Target got his application which was transfered from southern California and they forwarded it to two other Targets in the area. I swear he is working as hard as he can to get a job. He's applied to almost everything: 3 Targets, 3 Taco Bells, McDonalds, a casino, a grocery store, ect. (there are more I just can't remember) But he also said his cousin and her husband are willing to pay him to help build a porch for them. Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out how to get money myself. The only way I can get it now is through selling my work...problem is I don't think any of it is good enough to sell and I don't think anyone would buy it...and even if that wasn't true I don't know how. *sigh*
I swear it took me a good hour of taking failed pictures to get to this point...and even then I'm not as pleased as I expected. *sigh* I just can't win can I?
TRF: I decided another dog I want in my life is a collie...and if it's a boy I'm naming him Achilles :D
Available – In June 2017, I found this self portrait I painted in April of 2014 and thought I would share it. Self portraits by nature, in the purest and most valued sense, are unflinchingly honest. If they hit the mark they give the viewer a glimpse of the artist’s unvarnished self analysis and expression. In the sense of honesty, the artist must knowingly and scrupulously be completely honest, exposing all, telling all, naked, afraid and including their deepest shames. We all have judgments, probably the most critical of which are ones of self. We all contain a shadow self, but few venture to explore, or indeed expose to others or the world at large. This shadow self is part of us, the core of light which we all contain as well could not exist without the shadow mirror. It can be helpful if we befriend this shadow, letting it guide and teach us. At that moment in 2014, just after my birthday, I painted this seeking expression and visual representation of an aspect of that deep part of me. We would all be wise to love, cherish and embrace ALL aspects of our complex and simple selves, light, dark and indifferent aspects included. The reason being is that people’s parts cannot be separated from the whole, and indeed the whole is richer for all its combined nature and the choices we are free to make.