notes to self at work



mocp.org
yes, review next month

photographers
colin blakely "the seeming impenetrability of the space between"
colleen plumb
peter coffin

from my window anrdre kertesz

gregory krum
body of work too romantic, even to the point of embarrassment
but kind of into it?

milk glass photographs
milk glass collection - so beautiful -> light blue and ochre would be amazing!

i agree:
at best exhibitions are visual arguments



starting to look like everyone photographs the same. but also, i've been just looking at one blog, and she has a particular style about blogging/selecting photographers (i do too). some of them seem too contemporary/borderline meaningless for my taste.

i am thinking that the edge of the knife would be so cool. should/will wreck/experiment.

H: do you work at a nail salon?
E: no- do i look like it?
H: yes, but i don't know why
E: hm, well i sell bread to people and i help a man make money for his art program. i just moved here.
H: really, where are you from?
E: los angeles, i'm here bc it's too expensive to be there unless i live with my mom
H: you live w/ your mom?
E: no my mom is in l.a.
H: i bet you have a nice house, don't you?
E: no it's not that nice. i would say lower to middle class. but the neighborhood is nice. it's by the beach
H: oh, that sounds nice.

H: so you live by yourself?
E: no i have a roommate
H: who is your roommate? is it your older sister?
E: no it's one of my friends from los angeles
H: you have a nice house here?
E: we have a pretty good apt.
H: i bet it's nice a apt.

H: are you buddha?
E: no i'm not buddhist but my dad is and my mom believes in business
H: oh you aren't religious?
E: no, but i think i'm an okay person anyway
H: hm, yeah you are nice. i like your scarf
E: oh, it's a hooded scarf. i've been working on it for two years- can you believe it i'm almost done. feel it, it's soft.

H was a 15 yr old black girl, sandwiching me w/ her family at the trolley bench. i showed her and her sisters how to knit while we waited, and told them about alpacas (my yarn is baby alpaca) and how you can find these hairy camels in the mountains of south america.

taximan took me home for five bucks when i got stranded yesterday and commented on west philadelphia

TAXIMAN "sister, you live where?"
ME "50th baltimore"
TAXIMAN "girlfriend how do you live here? everyone's a squirrel"
ME "what do you mean?"
TAXIMAN "they're all nutty"



it was nice and warm today but i really wanted to be by the ocean. i wanted a salty breeze and a burrito.

i made my mum a package today. she mentioned how she had a hard time finding sage at the market, and how we should go to the mountains together to pick a bunch to sell at her store. so i walked down the street and cut up a bunch of sage to put in a box, and an i love you note in thai. lately i have been cheating because online you can find all horrible pre-written love letters for american or brit men who pursue thai women knowing very little english. so sometimes i use that to write to my mom.

im on the phone with zach right now, and he is in olympia attending this film festival where they are paying for his Bed and breakfast and taximan. i'm so jealous, also he just told me about his new chickens and how he will be starting this chicken blog. i've made an executive decision to be a part of that, and so i must find myself in northampton really really really soon. so excited! chickens! zach and fishing!

thats a clog, not a kitten!


just got back from kitten hunting. one fell out of the bag, and we had to retrace. she meowed loud and high, half way in the street, half way in the leaves. it was dark and raining so we never thought we'd get her back- but we did!

secret II my heart

i. more like my heart than my eyes
ii. making work, dreaming on
iii. miss sister, miss brother, miss mom and pop
iv. wiiiild rice
vi. desert in the dessert

was doing research for an interview and
i like him

also, lets touch on the uses and abuses of criticisms

WINDY CITY LIKE THIS


WAS LOST BUT FOUND LIKE THIS

halloween: C+
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so tired right now all i can think about right now is where are all the windy cities?, repotting plants, and spending more time in the darkroom. i made black and white contact sheets and color contact sheets just an hour or so ago! i have been waiting all summer to see it on analogue paper. i'm feeling good about it, and i can't wait to see 7 more rolls of color film and what happened there. it is zen for me to be in a darkroom. but the effort these days is a lot like trying to run a couple of miles. hard to get started, but once going pretty fucking good. srsly, so zen.

this week has been awkward, nice, comforting, sleepy, surprising, hyper-sexualized and plant-oriented:

i almost can't handle it- today marks another day of feeling entirely overwhelmed by the magnificence of this world, and i am utterly amazed by what people can do, and what is available and accessible with just enough research and sight. it's all so possible. i am addicted to the world through collectives and togetherness. i love discovering the eyes of other people.




im so obsessed! it's making me blog too much, marking the things that move my insides.