A remarkable page of flattened astral body maps by Steve Albers.  Click Here.

Triton

Lapetus

Rhea

Titan

Karley Sullivan, The Techno-Optimist, 2014

Memory: Talking to Debbie, in her home, looking out the window at sea lions cresting by the buoys in Frederick Sound in Alaska.  I'm sounding off in that way that I only do comfortably with older women who have gained my trust by caring for me without resentments or expectations.  I like to be cared for, but often suspiciously believe that most people do anticipate some personal gain from caring (Is that a question of reciprocity?) They want something from me, as I want from them to be heard.  It makes me stumble sometimes... "Why are we still talking about manufacturing, why is the dominant culture expending so much energy dimissing the Humanities?  In this dawning technological era we could be focusing on what makes us human, we should be thinking, caring, striving to do what humans do better than other species and mechanics - we could be building a society where the machines do the required labor, and we work towards responsible and enjoyable stewardship - of our bodies, our environment, and our relationships."

Today I'm gathering moons and thinking about Penelope Umbrico

Penelope Umbrico, 36 Copyrighted Suns / Screengrabs, 2009-2012

Editor's Pick

Queen of the Mountain, 2010

Egg Hunt, 2009

My series Said/Unsaid has been chosen as an Editor's Pick over at Lensculture.  It's quite an honor.

Some of my images from Still There (explorations of landscape as interior) have been published by the beautiful magazine Phases.  Follow the link here.  Thanks to Alexis Vasilikos.

An Anemone, 2014

The storm moved in fast.  You pull over beside the fields, several times on the drive, watching as the storm wound about itself, thankful for the familiar rich air of a coming rain and for not squinting in the sun, glad at the lack of hard edge shadows.  Standing on the side of the road, with the smartphone, wishing for your real camera, you are interrupted by a holler from the road.  A man, an old one, with a long and very dirty beard, is staring at the shape of your body made out by the wind and the light summer dress (this shit ALWAYS happens when I wear a dress, you think helplessly).  His car is held together with duct tape.  He's grumbling loudly but not quite unintelligibly about your stinky sticky clam or something about do this girl.  You summon your inner pufferfish, grimace, and shriek back while tugging your dress above your waist viciously.  Shriek something about slicing dirty walrus faces open and off, something about stuffing filthy beards up disgusting poor old man asses, something about gleefully choking something rude, grotesque, inhuman with its own parts.  He drives away. You take another picture, and think about living in God's country.

Westside Story Mambo Scene (Favorites). 2014

Abendsonne © Misha De Ridder
Landscape Stories

Today is not a Lucky Day for you © Dieter De Lathauwer 

Landscape Stories

Wow, I finished the Mooning Project.  There's still the scanning, cleaning the scans up, clarifying the memorizations, and organizing how they will be hung together (so much work, I'm exhausted just to think of it), but the drawing part is done! 

Hyrrokkin, Moon of Saturn

Suttungr, Moon of Saturn

Bestla, Moon of Saturn

Enceladus, Moon of Saturn

Epimetheus, Moon of Saturn

Understanding Patriarchy, bell hooks 
"Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening
social disease assaulting the male body and
spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the
word “patriarchy” in everyday life. Most men
never think about patriarchy—what it means,
how it is created and sustained."

South

a new sense of possible (even possibly precocious) photographic color

Karley Sullivan, Southern Invasives (Honeysuckle and Privet), 2010-2014
Yes, the James Welling show did have an effect on how I feel about photographic color.

Mira Schor's Year of Positive Thinking post on Carl Andre's upcoming Retrospective at Dia, and the question of his guilt or innocence in the death of his wife, Ana Mendieta, in 1985.  Also touches on the protectiveness of the patriarchy.

Ana Mendieta, Silueta Works in Mexico, 1973-1977

Carl Andre, Equivalent VIII (A pile of bricks), 1966

AnOther Magazine keeps coming up with nice things for me.  Here's Audrey Hepburn with her fawn, Ip, in the supermarket, 1958.  Image: Bob Willoughby/mptvimages.com

"The double exposure is the best of all the visual techniques to represent the dream, for it exceeds time and space, and allows the melting of hetrogeneous subjects into a coherent whole."  So said Hungarian photographer Laszlo Maholy-Nagy, over a century ago.  From Another Mag on Gozo Yoshimashu.

Orleans + Tsukuda, 2006, c-print (multiple exposure), Printed in "Omotegami", Shichosha, 2008