from home….
Working it Out
our eyebrows
from a year ago
She comes at me with a Sharpie.
“Do you think this will work on my eyebrows? Will you do them for me? Here…”
“No Grandma. You don’t want to use that. What happened to all those eyebrow pencils we bought you last time?”
“Hmmmmm….I don’t think I have any make-up”
(Grandpa from the living room) “They’re all over the house…who knows where they are.”
I put the Sharpie back on the desk and start rummaging through her dresser. I come across a bag of cosmetics.
“See Grandma…you still have make-up. Do you want to get ready?”
“Oh yes…just my eyebrows.”
There are two eyebrow pencils inside. They are light brown. I’ve never used an eyebrow pencil. Grandma Mary has all her life. I remember my mother saying Grandma did her eyebrows everyday. [Read more…] about our eyebrows
working on The Trophy
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I miss my friends slash art peers. You know…the ones who rip your work apart and then help you put it back together again? Now we have to critique long distance……sigh.
Anyway, am excited about where this project’s going
more surveillance
dad and i got this one
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first bytes from lake
I am currently working with an underwater surveillance camera in a mysterious, murky, beautiful lake[wpvideo ZrTLkllE]
dining with my mac
I was in Alabama this past weekend visiting family, being pulled on various inflatable objects behind boats, partaking in the shrimp boil, and photographing all of the food of course. My family and friends always get a kick out of how I obsessively photograph the food in front of me. There is something ritualistic in it. The celebratory food and wine at the wedding receptions to the pancakes and coffee at IHOP as my grandmother slips away from me. I don’t have an unhealthy addiction to food, but I do have a relationship with it. Especially when it marks important moments or serves as a quick notation of a story I don’t want to forget to tell. Someone once said “its the Southern in you.” maybe. But what I do have is a food log encompassing almost a decade of my life. Recently I’ve been mulling over my food log of images and video in my head…trying to figure out what this is and what will be its concise manifestation. [Read more…] about dining with my mac