Shadowmold Photo Blog Launched

After some months of delay trying to choose the best software platform, last week I went ahead with my Photoblog, aptly named SHADOWMOLD (A periodic posting of the shadows that pass by my camera's lying eye). Designed for daily posts, it resides for now as a Blogger blog. It does have its own URL, http://www.shadowmold.org. After an intial offering of ten or so images, shadowmold.org now boasts nearly 40 plus images drawn from a wide range of works spanning the last thirty-five years.Represented are a number of materials, including conventional silver based photography to pure digital image making and every thing inbetween. Please have a gander and please comment.

Saturday Morning, Bedside Glance

Waking late and hovering undercover for too long. Time is moving past, carrying glimpses of those things and ones vanished.

Your So Called Heritage...

I have carried folded in my photographic imagination an image that I have planned on making for several years. It is a large slice of reddest watermelon ensconced with little brown babies, like the tiny prizes in New Orleans King Kakes. On my last visit to Wal Mart I had managed to find the tiny plastic new borns, five to a package in the crafts section. All that was left was to give them a brown patina and wait for watermelon season. The image, I have always believed was a good one in a sly and unfeeling intellectual way, but I've hesitated to actually produce the image given its "political incorrectness". Funny how an idea can land closer to home than first conceived. Many of my students sport tee shirts emblazoned with the "stars and bars" and inscribed with platitudes of "southern heritage". I've tried to discuss the irony of these notions, but it leads nowhere. This image, so named "Your So Called Heritage...” above is my reaction to all that show and tell.

Long Gone, Returning.

I've not written anything since October. It's time I started up again. Perhaps Tomorrow;stay tuned.