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Original Painting Acrylic on canvas. 20"x16" 2019 Lightfast acrylic on gessoed canvas Learn more at www.CrowRising.com/gallery.
"And as he is who dreams of his own harm,
Who dreaming wishes it may be a dream,
So that he craves what is, as if it were not;
Such I became" ~ Dante Alighieri
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.
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.)
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.
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