spent a saturday wandering around death valley – my favourite national park.
connections
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I was contacted by a fashion graduate student a few months ago to use a poem I wrote as part of my poem a day project in a fashion film she was making. very interesting to see (& hear) poetry being used in this way.
still from reincarnation (2023)
the project was featured in l’officiel italia magazine, you can watch it here.
the birth of venus
in visual art, collage
from the snakes & the seashells.
birth of venus, 2023
searching for something else
in visual art, collage
whatever you may find…
searching for something else, 2022
december / january poem
added to the poetry hotline.
she wanted to disappear
but not in the sense of seeking
death – instead like the last
rays of hot yellow sun slipping
into the pacific knowing
the water can’t touch them
call: +1.310.571.8284
totally tubular
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happy holidays from us.
november books
in books
only one book this month.
the mindful photographer - sophie howarth
call me
now live: poetry hotline
an audio poetry project. call in for a short poem updated monthly.
310.571.8284
desert dreams
a morning in joshua tree national park.
shot on portra 800 with a vintage lubitel 2 camera.
october books
in books
only two books this month.
my private property - mary ruefle
how art can make you happy - bridget watson payne
on context
in prose, visual art
on cy twombly at the getty
untitled (to sappho) 1976
the chunk of colour feels lonely until you slow down enough to decipher the text. the handwriting is scrawled long & pulling against itself–stretching into the margins.
it’s sappho. recounting the violent crushing of purple petal underfoot. the visceral feeling of it. the petals bruised from the pressure smashing down on them once delicate, now devolving into only colour. devolving into feeling.
the purple makes us feel the ache of the bruise blooming on pristine skin.
the getty center’s cy twombly exhibition, “making past present,” runs until 30 october, 2022.
meet the hollywoods
film half frame photos from ciclavia’s meet the hollywoods event in august.
kodak gold 200 / kodak ektar h35 half frame camera
mojave morning
a morning spent exploring mojave california & the surrounding area with my kodak ektar h35 half frame camera & a roll of ilford hp5.
missing the train
in poetry
laying awake in the early morning grateful for the choices I’ve made.
august books
in books
brute - emily skaja
thrown rope - peter hutchinson
copy - dolores dorantes (trans. robin myers)
back at the rocks
in film photo, hiking, photography
journal:
woke up at 3am & went to the desert. highway 14 served as a kind of line between the slowly spreading dawn & the thick close smoke of fires burning to the north.
the morning sun doesn’t so much rise here as it does spread out. the light fills the darkness like water saturating a cloth. it blooms. osmosis.
spent a morning a few weeks ago at my favourite state park – red rock canyon in cantil. I’ve taken a lot of photographs of this park over the years so I decided to bring my film cameras out to play.
standing stones
in photography, histories, travel
journal:
“I don’t think I understoond the word verdant until now. not fully. whereas dublin is grey & a bit blunt the countryside is lush & rugged & rolling hues of green interspersed with slate rock & peat bogs.
the roadsides are dotted with serene collections of mountain sheep grazing away as the cars move around them like a planet in orbit. they can sense the rain & lay down when it’s on its way. sometimes they lay together in little groups of 2 or 3 resting their pitch black faces on each other like woolen pillows.”
poulnabrone dolmen is the largest & best preserved of irelands some 172 dolmens or pass through tombs. the partial remains of at least 33 people have been found here, indicating the site was used for ritual rather than an long term burial location. the structure dates to the neolithic era, but was in use up through the bronze age.
long views
in film photo, photography, travel
explorations around the irish countryside with the lomography sprocket rocket camera.
edge of the world
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located on the southwestern edge of ireland’s burren region in county clare, the cliffs of moher run roughly 9 miles along the coast. at their highest they rise more than 700 feet from the atlantic ocean below.
camcorder video diary
the cliffs were formed between 313-326 million years ago as a result of a river dumping silt, sand, and clay along an ancient delta. this sediment was collected over millions of years & compacted & lithified into sedimentary strata now exposed as the cliff face. the punishing atlantic ocean waves are now eroding the cliffs, causing them to collapse under their own weight.
you may recognize the cliffs of moher from their supporting role as the “cliffs of insanity” in the 1987 epic the princess bride.
I arrived in the early afternoon to an otherworldly view of the atlantic & the infamous cliffs shrouded in sea mist & swept by gusts of cold salt air. the cattle and sheep of the surrounding countryside didn’t seem to notice the bluster, & continued their lunchtime grazing without incident.
the cliffs now see over 1.5 million visitors per year.
emerald isle in black & white
in photography, travel
recently returned from my trip exploring ireland. despite bringing a wide range of cameras with me, sometimes the iphone is all you need.
