Showing posts with label whalers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whalers. Show all posts

Saturday, April 17, 2010

bleusy


suffering through a lack of inspiration
after a couple of insane months. But today
Vanessa's photograph of her grandfather

is going to help light that fire i need
to go to the NYPL this week and find
some insane work on whaling.

going to dig real deep.



Friday, December 25, 2009

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.