death valley winter

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three iphone shots from my time in death valley on a full moon.

the winter light in death valley is like a caress. rose-hued & hugging the mountains – curling between scrub grass & salt flat. driving the long curving roads like a wave craving sand.

looking up

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while playing with my new (to me) fujifilm x30 in nyc I fell in love with this monochrome film simulation & the winter light on the city’s buildings.

I loved being back in the city, even if only for a handful of days. I was surprised to realize that as much as I love new york I am very grateful to have made my home in california.

frozen sands

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something I always liked to do when I lived in brooklyn was go to coney island in the winter. this beach-town is almost totally abandoned during the colder months as the theme parks & boardwalk shops wait for summer to return before unlocking their gates & opening their doors. on my recent weekend in nyc I spent a very cold morning (28 degrees fahrenheit) walking along the boardwalk with my camcorder & making friends with the suspicious seagulls.

 
 

time machine: prospect park

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while working on my 2023 project of redoing my apartment I found an old polaroid t1234 compact point & shoot digital camera that I think I would have gotten sometime shortly after highschool (2010ish?). I’m currently trying to repair it, but with it I found a 4gb memory card that still had some photos on it! I believe I took these photos in prospect park brooklyn, potentially for a college class project.

much better quality pictures than I remember. hoping I can get it working again!

november books

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only one book this month.

the mindful photographer - sophie howarth

 
 

desert dreams

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a morning in joshua tree national park.

shot on portra 800 with a vintage lubitel 2 camera.

october books

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only two books this month.

my private property - mary ruefle

how art can make you happy - bridget watson payne

on context

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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

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film half frame photos from ciclavia’s meet the hollywoods event in august.

kodak gold 200 / kodak ektar h35 half frame camera

mojave morning

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a morning spent exploring mojave california & the surrounding area with my kodak ektar h35 half frame camera & a roll of ilford hp5.