tonight (fri may 16) is "meet the artist" night from 7-10pm!
Artomatic 2008
Friday, May 9 – Sunday, June 15, 2008
1200 First Street NE
Washington, DC
Metro: Red Line, New York Ave., M St exit
I'm on the 7th floor- get out of the elevator and walk toward the view of the Metro!
other artomatic peeps:
jen and eric - 12th floor
anita and ben- 9th floor
sean, rania and me- 7th floor
pat and brett- 5th floor
well then.
I have really wanted to share with you what I've been working on. but here's the problem. this is one of those times when an artistic endeavor doesn't translate well to this blog medium. because it depends on the interrelatedness of groups of images. I hope you can get the gist. see it bigger here.
my artomatic project is called "aspects of spring". the idea "sprung" from the day I was choosing my little corner of artomatic-ville and spent some time pondering the view of the new construction happening all over my neighborhood.
later that day, SH and I went to pick up the bees to populate our rooftop apiary. we chatted about how quickly the bees would begin to construct comb and how soon they would start to gather pollen and how soon they would begin to procreate...
and I saw the opportunity to do a project about bees and people as they started to emerge in the spring and go about the business of building and collecting and interacting. not so much as a statement on the beeness of people, or the peopleness of bees, but more as a comparative visual study.
I also wanted to challenge myself by completing all the work for the show in one month. with polaroid cameras I hadn't used before.
and it was challenging. frustratingly, gleefully, stompingly, stingingly, blissfully challenging.
to see the polaroid prints in the manner they were meant to be viewed, please come to:
Artomatic 2008
Friday, May 9 – Sunday, June 15, 2008
1200 First Street NE
Washington, DC
Metro: Red Line, New York Ave., M St exit
I'm on the 7th floor- get out of the elevator and walk towards the view of the Metro!
*I will update this entry soon to include the locations of other friends who are participating. right now I must go hang my prints at the last possible minute.*
sometimes in doing a submission, I find myself having to go back to some old files looking for something to fit the theme. the one above I've never posted. I probably won't submit it (because there are better images), but I kinda wonder why I never posted it.
the other funny thing about looking through old files are the conflicting thoughts that run through my head.
"wow. I"m not half bad."
"damn, I've really come a long way. these suck."
"when did I shoot that?"
"I should give this whole thing up."
"why haven't I done more with these?"
I intend to be scarce around here for a bit. for good cause. I decided that for Artomatic I wanted to really challenge myself by shooting and printing all new work done in the space of this month. on top of that, I've decided to use a filmtype and two cameras I have very little experience with. go me!
I may post a few cellphonecam images as I work in my flickr stream.
wish me luck, and come see the results at:
Artomatic 2008
Friday, May 9 – Sunday, June 15, 2008
1200 First Street NE
Washington, DC
Metro: Red Line, New York Ave., M St exit
I'm on the 7th floor- get out of the elevator and walk towards the view of the Metro!
this image was perfectly exposed. but I worked it thisaway and thataway and I wondered if I was adding too much contrast or too little or if I should just do a bit of burning on the shadow and does it show the tangle of greenery on the hoop enough because I think that's what this is about but maybe it's actually about the fence shadow and I could just burn that in but then maybe it doesn't look natural and hell I should just post it exactly as scanned because I'm sure people would comment on the tones but is that really me is that really what this picture is about...?
and on and on and on.
I fucking hate it when I'm like this. indecisive and insecure about my intuition. I don't know if this image will stay here like this or if I'll replace it later with a different interpretation.
I just don't know.
in the foreground, is an accidental facade. what is left after a devastating blow. you may feel two dimensional. but the moon reminds us that life is cyclical. this is only a phase. you will become full again.
