The Body As Conduit

Gianna & I, separated by time, light, and (mental +...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:15:23 -0500

Gianna & I, separated by time, light, and (mental + physical) orientation.

May 2013

film

sunshinerobinsonpresents:

traci matlock

Self-Portrait between a wall of cameras and a wall of...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:01 -0500

Self-Portrait between a wall of cameras and a wall of prints.

May 2013

film

Ash LaRose Sucking Toe, after Peter Hujar January...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:56:40 -0500

Ash LaRose Sucking Toe, after Peter Hujar

January 2013

film

Bashfulleigh

Narration created humanity. - Pierre Janet * On the portrait in...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:01:16 -0500

Narration created humanity.

- Pierre Janet

On the portrait in the mirror as external narration.

2011 - 2013

film

in order, left to right:

The Bunny, self-portrait, Christy

sorta miss myself in this state:...

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:30:44 -0500

sorta miss myself in this state: crying/tossled/black-eyed/smiling

(harder to admit than you’d imagine)

April 2013

film

In 1556 Abu’l-Fazl, the chronicler of the Mughal emperor...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:31:00 -0500

In 1556 Abu’l-Fazl, the chronicler of the Mughal emperor Akbar’s reign, wrote of a charge of 1,500 military elephants,

“How can the attributes of these rushing mountains be strung on the slender thread of words?”

- David MacDougal from The Corporeal Image

Like language,

like magic,

(simultaneously)

consequential & unclear.

2013

film

I will be re-introduced to Texas today. Whether this experience...

Sun, 12 May 2013 06:53:00 -0500

I will be re-introduced to Texas today.

Whether this experience underpins or overlays me, as Paul Simon sings,

“Easy time will determine if these consolations will be their reward.”

May 2013

film

Elena Siddal with the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens

Five minutes before Ash LaRose made this photograph of me in a...

Sat, 11 May 2013 06:52:09 -0500

Five minutes before Ash LaRose made this photograph of me in a quaint cafe on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn,

she stepped off a subway with one small bag, a Slayer t-shirt and a couple of cameras.

Give us five minutes together — this is what happens.

(And yes, all of that cream made it into my coffee cup.)

May 2013

film

Making photos is not why I came to New York, not this time. But...

Fri, 10 May 2013 06:49:00 -0500

Making photos is not why I came to New York, not this time.

But it has been quite the enjoyable distraction!

May 2013, Brooklyn

film

‘You’re with me only in the past.’ Brooklyn...

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:09:48 -0500

‘You’re with me only in the past.’

Brooklyn 2013

film

hiveandwarehouse: Sappho, translated by Anne Carson

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:59:44 -0500

hiveandwarehouse:

Sappho, translated by Anne Carson

Self-portrait with: black eye & Elena on the rooftop, two...

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:23:00 -0500

Self-portrait with: black eye & Elena on the rooftop, two days later.

May 2013

film

elenasiddal:

Traci Matlock took this photo of me the other day. It was shot over a roll of film she had already used, and I can’t believe the happy accident of this particular shot of me overlaying this particular self portrait.

Brooklyn.

Codeswitching (with knee bruises + blue wax) April...

Sat, 04 May 2013 06:46:00 -0500

Codeswitching

(with knee bruises + blue wax)

April 2013

film

Finally developed a roll of film while in NY.

This is the last photo I took while in Houston.

It’s perhaps a little too meta (even for Tumblr!) that I...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:47:00 -0500

It’s perhaps a little too meta (even for Tumblr!) that I should reblog a post that someone reblogged from me (via Flickr).

But because I’m in NYC and without a single image to post (can’t post a roll of undeveloped film… yet), this will have to do.

In light of my recent removal of every image I’ve ever made of someone who was once my most photographed subject (and close friend) from the internet, I’ve thinking a lot about how our lives, like our work shared online, should be constantly, actively curated. Some like it wild and overgrown (that’s me), some don’t. But when you share land, you sometimes have to trim back your best parts of the garden.

Know what happens then? You grow something else. Something better.

It may take a while to find, but there is always more land, more sky, more space.

softcollapse:

Traci Matlock, Georgia, 2011

Cage used to say, “The thing about accidents is you do choose the ones you want to keep; it’s not like there’s no intention whatsoever. The process of arriving at a result is a process you set in motion almost blindly. The part that’s not blind is the decision once you’ve made something: to keep it or not.”

— Robert Storr quoting John Cage during a conversation on the work of Gerhard Richter

I’m away from my laptop and (thus far) have only draft...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:08:26 -0500

I’m away from my laptop and (thus far) have only draft posts to share with you.
This is Ari Papa from when we shot together when I was in NYC last summer.

Which is where I am now.

So if you’d like to make photos with me —
on either side of the camera —
please send me an email.

fell down, went boom * welcome to NYC, I’ll be here a...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:04:22 -0500

fell down, went boom

*
welcome to NYC, I’ll be here a while

Everything I planned yesterday was intercepted. Thank goodness....

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:00:49 -0500

Everything I planned yesterday was intercepted.

Thank goodness. Because this happened instead.

(spontaneously shot with my cell phone at two p.m. and with no planning whatsoever

— these things just happen)

music: Shatni by Josiah Gabriel

Clouds by Jorge Luis Borges

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:03:52 -0500

IThere can’t be a single thing which is not cloud.You are a cloud in a supermarketlooking for...

Seagulls, cotton candy & horizon-less seascapes that pretend...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:43:00 -0500

Seagulls, cotton candy & horizon-less seascapes that pretend to be cloudscapes;

or, Look Up! overhead as beautiful as below.

April 2013

film

‘He astray, in exigency clothes’ - from...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:17:00 -0500

‘He astray, in exigency clothes’

- from today’s spam email

The shore of the Gulf of Mexico (made everything alright.)

film

April 2013