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on and through glass

I have been scanning for three days.

by some miracle I found an Epson

flatbed scanner that was compatible

with my computer in Bequia.

Big sigh of relief.

I really wanted the chance to just be

in my space for a couple days and just

do, do, do. I swam on Christmas day

and collected sea grass that washed

up from the surging. It is in a huge aluminum

bowl on our tank in fresh water, smelling

to high heaven of the sea, raw and decay.

I sat under the stars tonight with my

father. We talked God, politics,

Africa and the sea. I love being here.

Below is an image from the new series

Imprints. © seabed

Crossbreed

it is my mission this holiday to collect

every photograph on the island from way back when

to the late 60's, my parents got me a scanner. I think i may just skim the

surface of this goal. Today alone I traced the island's

roots back to the 17th century, collected maps, last wills and testaments

and got flung around by names like Ephraim, McPherson, Isaiah

John Peter, Abraham, Jane, Eleanor and Rose. All reduced

to stories that have trickled down and are now untrustworthy.

I come from the whalers.

Open Studios

Arielle Bier, Holly Bynoe, Jesse Chan, Tara Cronin, Ame Curtiss, Hernease Davis, Dillon DeWaters, Ryan Easter, Sam Falls, Waqas Farid, Olimpia Ferrari, Curtis Hamilton, Michael Itkoff, Tuomas Korpijaakko, Michelle Leedy, Pierre Le Hors, Garret Miller, Róisín Morris, Clark Nelson, Liz Sales, Sayaka Taninokuchi, Alejandra Ugarte Bedwell, Jason Woolfolk

Friday, December 18, 2009

7:00pm - 11:00pm

24-20 Jackson Ave. Long Island City, New York

inside my studio, general shots of the front gallery. Main Piece

titled "Passed on" 24"x36" printing on 140 lb newsprint.

David Deitcher, my MFA thesis advisor looking at the work, and

miscellaneous shots of the work and area.

meek and mild

One of my few goals this semester was

to try to see if i can get a web presence that

i could update and contain. I got a new domain but

finding someone to do it has been to hard. After

sitting down with this http://hbynoe.otherpeoplespixels.com/

for a couple minutes, I think right now i am going

to spend some money and get a template site so I can

sell myself after I leave the institution. I quite like it and

it will be a platform for me to share a lot and write as well.

Tell me what you guys think if you ever make it around to

this end.

The semester is speeding to a close at an uncomfortable speed

for me. I feel as though I haven't done much at all but I know it isn't

true. My solo thesis show is coming up on the 19th of March I was freaking out

until I found that creating completely wipes out the anxiety for me. So i am up

again at a god forsaken hour praying for 2 gigs of extra memory for my

slow as snail photoshop.

I tried printing the collages today on newsprint. I was using Ilford Gallerie

Silk paper but decided that it was a little to precious for them and maybe they

need to be un-contained. I will be hanging my work for open studios sometime tomorrow or early Wednesday then I am gone for a couple weeks. I have been having some really insanely beautiful days this past month. I don't know what I am doing right but whatever it is my heart feels good.

Below:

Meek and Mild.

sugar blossom

A scan of a sugar cane blossom, text from a indexical card

at the picture library of the NYPL and photo of my mother

from the late 50's. Lines, surfaces and a jumble of proverbs.

Proverbs was the seminal book in my childhood worshipping

time. I guess the reference for sweet is also there I wanted to

make this one beautiful, feminine and soft. Like a gentle warm breeze

contrasting it with bible text that is seemingly anti-feminine and

filled with hateful comments regarding "she" and "her".

i have a map of the world

collage of a 15th century map, my friend damali and

all sorts of cultural affects ranging from

coin heads, lines, ships, slavery, water, cities, it

sort of goes on and on. I am learning photoshop again and

patience which mostly alludes me. 9 days and ill be home!

1940

my grandfather and his brother.

these collages keep rescuing me

they keep changing and challenging

me. Finally I am at a place where

it seems as though nature and intuition

is pulling me. I am in tow. A lot of the

text is lost because of the size. These

are going to live large: 20x30. They deserve

it.