a few half frame film shots from my day in death valley on a paleontology hike with the national park service (they do these once a year and I highly recommend it).
shot on kodak gold 200 with the kodak ektar h35 camera.
I could have decided not to lug my little $40 camcorder to a whole new continent & then up several mountains on my trek along the inca trail, but I couldn’t bear the thought of having no low quality shaky video documenting my trip. the camcorder remains undefeated, even after a tumble onto incan stonework.
after four days hiking the inca trail & a morning spent in the ruins of machu picchu we stopped in machupicchu pueblo (also known as aguas calientes) for lunch. before catching the train back to ollantaytambo to start my return to cusco, I wandered the streets & the bustling market with new found friends & my little point & shoot film camera.
walking the bustling & narrow streets of cusco with my fujifilm x30. once the capital of the incan empire, now the main hub for peru’s tourism industry.
12:18 - 53rd street - MoMA
what does it mean to be seen but not SEEN? maybe its the difference between observation & objectification? photographs are about seeing yes, but they’re also a way of erasing the viewer or the maker of the photographer. they’re like windows with one way glass. we can see in but they can’t see out. in fact, they don’t even know we’re looking at them. I guess that’s pure voyeurism.
sometimes they do know I suppose. it’s a different kind of feeling. more about being on display for a purpose. if you can even call it being on display at all.
everything becomes a performance OR it already was one.
to be seen
an eye immobilized
against grey. a
mystery–
that’s solving itself
& never revealing
its answers.
the $40 lofi camcorder remains undefeated.
a few shots from descanso gardens on kodak gold.
took a roll of lomochrome turquoise film to death valley a couple months ago. the results look like photographs from mars! the turquoise film is super fun even if I do have a hard time deciding when using it will create cool results or just weird ones.
shot on lomochrome turquoise 110 film with the pentax auto 110 camera.
spent a saturday at descanso gardens admiring the blooms.
here & disappearing
a woman is an old house, 2023
a woman is an old house
ask her why
she searches
for dissolution
updated my artist statement with a gif.
thinking about the poetry possibilities of gif making.
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.
pray for us sinners.
our mother in the dirt, 2023
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.
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.
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.
exploring the lowest point in north america — badwater basin in death valley national park.
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!
spent a saturday wandering around death valley – my favourite national park.
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.
