8/29/2011

Some sequences:

Alec Soth's Broken Manual
Anna Shteynshleger's City of Destiny
Barry Stone's I Met a Unicorn
Danielle Mericle's Archive
Ed Panar's Walking Home
Karianne Bueno's Asper
Ron Jude's Other Nature

8/27/2011


















My great-great-grandfather Owens built this hotel in Wytheville, and my dad lived in the house behind it. Now there's a Stellar One bank there. More old postcards here.


8/23/2011
































 Couple more rolls from the creek. Thanks, Emmanuel, for advice on processing!

8/22/2011

I commandeered my parents' upstairs bathroom and developed my first roll of color film last night! The highlights are blown out which is a little tragic, but it feels great to be working with objects again. Can't wait to get back to Akadem and order some cheap prints.

This was taken at Reed Creek.


8/16/2011

Hymn
A. R. Ammons

I know if I find you I will have to leave the earth
and go on out
   over the sea marshes and the brant in bays
and over the hills of tall hickory
and over the crater lakes and canyons
and on up through the spheres of diminishing air
past the blackset noctilucent clouds
   where one wants to stop and look
way past all the light diffusions and bombardments
up farther than the loss of sight
   into the unseasonal undifferentiated empty stark

And I know if I find you I will have to stay with the earth
inspecting with thin tools and ground eyes
trusting the microvilli sporangia and simplest
   coelenterates
and praying for a nerve cell
with all the soul of my chemical reactions
and going right on down where the eye sees only traces

You are everywhere partial and entire
You are on the inside of everything and on the outside

I walk down the path down the hill where the sweetgum
has begun to ooze spring sap at the cut
and I see how the bark cracks and winds like no other bark
chasmal to my ant-soul running up and down
and if I find you I must go out deep into your
   far resolutions
and if I find you I must stay here with the separate leaves

8/08/2011



















Rock Carved by Drifting Sand, Below Fortification Rock, Arizona. Timothy O'Sullivan, 1871. (Here.)