self-profile #8
June 10, 2009
manhattan, 2009
self-profile # 7
May 14, 2009
happy toes.
self-profile # 6
April 22, 2009
portland, oregon. burnside bridge. sundown. is it just me or does it look like i’m wearing mc hammer pants?
self-profile # 5: reflection
March 31, 2009
on the hub cap of an old, seafoam green volkswagon bus in scottsdale, arizona.
self-portrait # 4: shadows
March 9, 2009
* photo: chihuahua, mexico. february 2007.
self-portrait # 3: photogram
February 26, 2009
i stunk, stunk like a field of rotten cabbage in the dark room tonight. my negatives were overexposed, overdeveloped and out of focus. i tried to fix things (over and over again) until they shut down the place, but that didn’t make my poopy photos any better. this is going to be a lot harder than i thought. really makes me miss photogram week when i could just stick my head in the enlarger and make pretty silhouettes of myself.
self-portrait # 2: movement
February 17, 2009
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
February 4, 2009
2) the love: portraits of family and friends. little stories, quotes, reflections of them and me and what we are.
3) up above: in portland i hardly looked at the sky. i didn’t want to. the grey taunted me day after day. here, i wake up and want to race toward the window and say HELLOOOOO! to the sun, tie a thank you note to a shiny red balloon and release it into the air. the blue, it is clear and vast and bright and loyal and it is screaming for my camera’s attention.
4) self-portrait: given how heavy my camera feels, how short my limbs are and how limited my upper-body strength is, this might be a tall order. but i’m going to try to experiment with different elements like light, wind, water and reflection.
5) words: that tickle my tongue and make me pucker my lips; that slip and linger and beg to be said again. photos of words because of the way they look, the way they sound, what they represent or how they make me feel.
* photo: bridge on the edge of a tiny town in sonora, mexico. march 2008.
** woo-hooo! this gets me launched on #10, #16 and #21 on the list of 29 things.
self-portrait # 1: shadows
February 4, 2009
it was a don quixote-sancho panza kind of day. sunny april afternoon skipping along the cobblestone paths of toledo, spain with ginny. past a row of bashful nuns draped in black and white, past the unchecked chatter of uniformed school kids, past shop windows displaying warm, baked bread and handmade silk shawls. every single thing i laid my eyes on that day was a new discovery.
* photos: toledo, spain. april 2005.
