Just takin’ the new ballet shoes out for a quick spin.
If anyone’s looking for me, I will be scanning negatives for the next 5 days…
if anyone’s looking for my assistant, she will be scanning negatives for the next five days… (vive le film!)
Between *Here & Cool
it is exactly 5,926.4 miles between here and Cool. but whether it's a place on the map or a state of mind, some way, some how, we are all somewhere in-between. i offer this as some sort of proof that Cool exists, is worth seeing, hearing, reading, (laughing at), and certainly archiving.
my name is diane, and this is a true story. i am a writer, photographer, runner, doctoral student, university professor, and mother from the great state of texas. just a few months ago, betweenhereandcool hit the road and traveled the blue highways between Cool, Texas and Cool, California and Cool, Iowa, documenting bits and pieces of the American Dream all along the way. this is what i saw, and then some.
“Right to Know (Flash Point),” text and found sign, 30 x 24”, installation variable (but next to a fire extinguisher, preferable), 2012. Collaboration with artist Devyn Gaudet.
“1973 Mack R700, Marfa TX.” Shot with a Holga 120N + Fujifilm Pro 400H 120 film. And then the shutter quit shutting. (So it goes with the Holga.)
“D and T Supermarket, Clarksdale MS.” Shot with a Hasselblad 501CM and Fujifilm Pro 400H 120 film.
Breakfast. And probably lunch.
In an attempt to channel healthy, free, Chaco-wearing, granola-me from those college days when writing a twenty page paper in 10 hours seemed easier than getting dressed in the morning, I will do the KIND thing and hope for all sorts of dissertation writing mercies from the dissertation writing gods, if there are any, and they can hear me. Because surely even they know I have a deadline. Today.
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
Sol Lewitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art (1969)
“Randy, Beale Street Brews, Kingman AZ.” Shot with a Hasselblad 501CM before the spool loosened and let the sun shine in.
My life as a stack of books (with grapes).
“The Old Round Barn, Allerton IA.” Shot with a Hasselblad 501CM + Kodak Portra 400 120 film.
“Guys, we’re going to JJ’s for victory waffles and then we’re staying up all night talking about our lives and our feelings. Non negotiable.”
-Leslie Knope
“Thunderbird Motel, Marfa TX.” Shot with a Hasselblad 501CM + Kodak Tri-X 400 120 film.
It’s not looking good for the Princess Pumpkin. She’s got so much life in her eyes, but she’s dying on the inside (and a little on the outside, too).
Lost in My Mind - The Head and the Heart
There’s nothing quite like watching a softly bridled horse run wild, unless it’s something like wearing a princess dress for three days straight. And if that’s the case, she’s touched on a spirit that can never truly be broken.
