October 2010
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i could be happy here
my newest project (which might carry on for a long time) is titled i could be happy here. it has started as an exploration of our dwelling places and how we attach ourselves to certain places. it began to take on different connotations as soon as i was out shooting. i visited a neighborhood off the orange line (stop ashland) and fell in love with it. i have been back three times, shooting with...
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happy halloween from sounddoe!
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currently
i have just begun executing photographic series dealing with architecture, and though i love the structures themselves, i am currently extremely interested in windows. the idea that a the voyeur (photographer) is taking photos of a human device used by another voyeur (the homeowner) is slightly ironic and alluring.
i recently picked up one of uta barth’s books, which contains beautiful...
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“this i learned standing in the middle of a quiet room in a quiet house, like a...”
– doris grumbach, fifty days of solitude
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woodcut
this was my test run for an idea i was planning to use for print media final next month. i’m going to print them large, maybe screenprint. these are woodcuts, only about 6x8. the plan is to make prints for the three buildings i’ve lived in in chicago. (above, from left: chicago building at dusk, two-color woodcut, 2010, chicago building at dusk, one-color woodcut, 2010, chicago...
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“she was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.”
– edith wharton, the house of mirth
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“my daughter once spent hours in the impressionist rooms, came back to our house,...”
– doris grumbach, fifty days of solitude
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surprise
a few days ago i was contacted by tris hutchinson photography. though he was contacting me, i was excited to find his images quietly alluring. with subtle coloring and selective lighting, hutchinson produces photographs that are both successful and muffled, communicating to the viewer a complete pre-existing narrative. i am very hopeful that he continues to update his website, as well as keep in...
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exhibition 2010
i just got accepted to my second gallery show! touched by fire exhibition to be shown at toronto’s royal ontario museum. exhibition opens november 25. i am currently working on printing and mounting my photo for shipping. needless to say, i won’t be able to actually see it in the exhibition, but if you happen to be in toronto around then, let me know how it looks!
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“he had been dead some months, but was often present in my quiet house when i...”
– doris grumbach, fifty days of solitude
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“if the temperature of the bath rises one degree every ten minutes, how will the...”
– marshall mcluhan
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“do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. keep your isolation....”
– simone weil, gravity and grace
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hand shredder
how cute is this? i want one in white (of course). a+r store presents a fascinatingly minimal hand cranked paper shredder. about $45.
“you can love the fight. but a spirit is fragile, and eventually you can no...”
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death cab, tiny vessels
“photo time is happy time. so please leave.”
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“don’t treat the object indirectly or symbolically but look directly at it...”
– allen ginsberg
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completely new, updated website. what do you... →
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“she wanted the songs that cut like a swallow wing, the high, untainted ether,...”
– h.d., paint it today
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“it is sad to suppose that places may even be more important than people. i...”
– e.m. forster, howard’s end
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“i believed they were here and so i saw them far more clearly than the pictures...”
– doris grumbach, fifty days of solitude
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“the reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we...”
– doris grumbach, fifty days of solitude
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“criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping...”
– george jean nathan, american critic 