Fe

“A photographer who doesn’t photograph women is no photographer, or only a third-rate one. Meeting a woman anywhere teaches you more about the world than reading Balzac. Whether it be a wife, a woman encountered by happenstance, or a prostitute, she will teach you about the world. In fact I build my life on meeting women and I have hardly read a book since primary school.” Nobuyoshi Araki

tarkovsky, etc

"Generally people's memories are coloured by poetry. The most beautiful memories are those of childhood. Of course, memory has to be worked upon before it can become the basis of an artistic reconstruction of the past; and here it is important not to lose the particular emotional atmosphere without which a memory evoked in every detail merely gives rise to a bitter feeling of disappointment. There's an enormous difference, after all, between the way you remember the house in which you were born and which you haven't seen for years, and the actual sight of the house after a prolonged absence. Usually the poetry of the memory is destroyed by confrontation with its origin" Tarkovsky (discussing 'Ivan's Childhood')

ex-me magazine

interesting japanese magazine featuring an unusual collection of my work

separation

A sua ausencia me atraverso
como um fio atraves de uma agulha
todu o que eu faço està imbuido com a sua côr
w.s. merwin

pi

pi is irrational, transcendental and constant.

still life

been thinking about what esme said....'photos as objects, separate from what they depict'... so this is another attempt at creating that distance. (a flower painting in a dublin bed and breakfast presumably meant to brighten up the place but somehow making it more depressing?)

don't talk to me about quality, okay?

"Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy - the tone range isn't right and things like that - but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention." (Elliott Erwitt)

parallax

"today we start
to pay the piper with each breath, yet love
knows not of death nor calculus above
the simple sum of heart plus heart."
from 'Love is a Parallax' (Sylvia Plath)

parallax: An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight.

'looking outside....and inside'

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lethe

"the taker-away of pain
And the giver-back of beauty"