It's Getting Pretty Theatrical

It's theatre time over here. Pushing and pulling, pressing against the dimensions. Overwhelmed and wondering: where is my assistant with the seltzer water and sipping straw? I'm thirsty.

The bridemaid dress here, worn by the amazingly inventive Lindsay, is pulled from a sequence I'm combining into a little choreographed moment of movement. Titling the images was a verbfest: pushing, leaning, bending, reaching, sitting, curling.

Now I'm working on writing one word per image to lay down syncopation for the movement.

Fingers crossed, ladies and gentlemen. Fingers crossed.

Two for Tuesday: Warming Up

It's been raining and January raw outside and this twosome of warming sneakers seems well suited for the week we've just had in North Carolina.

I found this twosome leaning up against the radiator one day in Amsterdam, huddled and touching at the tip. I felt instantly struck by the composition with its lovely geometry, painterly and pure. The patterning on the rubber soles only added to the shapeliness of line. I also love how large these sneakers are. Massive really- size 12, 13 maybe. The shoes belonged to some man walking around in socks who has some seriously big feet.

Closer to home, I live in a house with old-time radiators and love warming up my undies and socks in the morning as I shower and get ready for the day. Warmed up clothes feel delicious. Warm shoes, though, what a super yummy idea.

Open the Window

Some words of Taoist wisdom for the start of the work week, with an interpretation by Bruce Lee.

You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

You can never force a great photograph to happen. You can only be ready to capture it.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Love Life – Go photograph now!

Blowing It Out

Here's a photograph from yesterday's shoot that didn't work out but I still love.

This series has an alter ego which is super blurry and suggestive and merely hints at the details. I figure part of what makes me love this messy frame is that I know what's really going on. For others it's probably just a riddle.

Here's a clue: the light source is a sparkler.
Here's another: the story is about greeting the new millennium.

Hope everyone finds a little sparkle this weekend.

Getting Ready

The act of getting ready, getting organized, getting my shit together is defining my days and nights. This morning I woke up at 2:30. I refused to leave my bed, but the thoughts churned around like a fan was blowing on them.

It's been hitting me just how much stuff I've made.

S O M U C H S T U F F

This image comes from a sequence I'm building based on getting dressed/undress, zipped/unzipped.

Check out the textured fabric; it's a dream, even in black and white.

Details, Details

Vladimir Nabokov said to caress the details and that's exactly what I've been up to here this week.

Finding my way into the little bits and pieces, looking over my to-do list that's got so many items on it I woke up today at 4 in the morning.

Thanks to Julia for all she brought to the shoot and to the pixies who seem to have planted atmosphere and breath into this image. And thanks to Rebecca, who makes me think and think and begin to see how the pieces need to go together.

Two for Tuesday: Heading Somewhere

Random twosomes are intriguing. Paired and related, but unconnected and singular. Here's a pair of people waiting for the train. Both standing on the platform, both about to board the same train; aside from those obvious similarities their unity divides.

She with the jazzy blue and pink suitcase is embarking on a different trip than the man to her right, who carries only his messenger bag. The man leans against the lamp post, legs crossed, calm and relaxed, ready to hop on the train destined, it seems, for the the same old same old. The woman, her head craning left, peers down the track, anticipating, eager or anxious to begin her trip to who can say where.

Maybe it's the metaphor of train tracks, but the journey always pulls me in, makes me wonder, raises questions about destinations and what's next. Personally, I like both stances - the easygoing familiar and the awakened new.