here & disappearing
a woman is an old house, 2023
a woman is an old house
ask her why
she searches
for dissolution
old houses
in collage, visual art
statements
in admin / news
updated my artist statement with a gif.
thinking about the poetry possibilities of gif making.
oops I did it again
in running
on sunday I finished my second marathon. while I wasn’t faster than my first race in 2020, I had a much better experience & a lot more fun so I’m counting that as win! plus, I completed the “conquer la” challenge which consists of finishing the santa monica 10k, the rose bowl half marathon, & the la marathon in the same season & gets you an additional medal at the final finish line.
in the dirt
in visual art, collage
pray for us sinners.
our mother in the dirt, 2023
death valley winter
in photography, hiking, travel
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
in photography, travel
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
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.
getting low
exploring the lowest point in north america — badwater basin in death valley national park.
time machine: prospect park
in photography
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!
video diary: death valley
spent a saturday wandering around death valley – my favourite national park.
connections
in admin / news, poetry
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
in admin / news
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.