Sky

Sky shots, from 2009.

Five

Photographs from a five-year-old's art-themed birthday party, 2009. Art matters. The photograph of the six paint jars was one of Kate's favorites. So was the one of the paper lampshades. The colours and the patterns are as riveting now as they were then.

Angles

Fripp Island, South Carolina, 2009. Notice the lizard!

Pink Pretty Things

Easter 2009.

Pretty Things

Home of a dear friend, New Year's Eve, 2008.

This is the Modern World

"Life is beautiful," you say, "well, it's full of crap, too." Yes, I know. That's a legitimate criticism. In visual art, does the soul just seek beauty? What about awareness of historical context? The photograph stops time, but time doesn't really stop. This past week has been rife with disturbing social history, as every week is, and I resisted putting up a new post here until I saw it as an opportunity to say what I had previously considered. An acknowledgement that the stop-time of beauty requires complication. These below are from Savannah, Georgia, 2009. The first is of the Cotton Exchange, built on an economy made rich by slavery. It was weird to be there (that's me in yellow in the second photograph). Slavery! It seems a world away. It isn't. And, yes, Savannah is beautiful. In the core. Along the highway we viewed slums and suburbs. This is the modern world, past and present, good and bad, the hopeful and the horrible, all mixed up.

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