Everyday: 12/5/15

From the Photos My Grandmother Gave Me After Someone in Her Family Died (digital photograph)

Japanese Honeysuckle (tests)

 sprayed with bleach

bleached by the sun

Unhappy Trees

all of these trees are unhappy, and are from a series of photographs that i have taken

invisible

visited the art institute today - with my new (xmas gifted) membership card, so i got free Intellegensia coffee, mmmm. the Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 was pretty amazing, and very hard to get through. the show is large and fairly packed, in addition to most of it being dry and/or cerebral. dear AIC, perhaps 'exhaustively as possible' was not the best way to attend to this type of artwork. i can only imagine how inaccessible this is for people without an art background. anyway, i will need to spend more time with it, but some things do stick out:

 Victor Burgin - Photopath (inkjet prints on vinyl) 2011 (first created 1967) [this was in the foyer of the modern wing - but still part of the show. taken with my phone]

Giovanni Anselmo - Invisible (slide and slide projector) 1971 [not the actual piece from the show - photography is ironically not aloud in the photography show. the exhibited version is red and it projects onto the bodies of visitors when they enter the gallery]

plus, Baldessari and Le Witt rocked the house. (ps - lots of white men in this show)

disposable

some highlights from the disposable camera that i just had developed.

DIY?

maybe i'll call these interventions DIY Sculptures - a play/translation of bricoleur.

 Adam Farcus - Face (digital photograph) 2011

more every day

got ↑ late
so slow falling snow
acapella sinatra
jelly buttered bread
17°

cameraphone

In the world of cameras I own a Canon EOS T1i, a small pocket Canon, 2 Polaroid Land cameras (plus 4 frozen packs of film), and a regular Canon (film) Rebel. And I still can't deny that I like the photos from my phone the most. They seem to capture the best of what I want to say about notions of 'at hand' and economy of means. I just need to find the right subjects. Here are some that I've pulled off my phone.

Cowboy Hat (above Judy and Tony's House, Oak Park, IL)

Fermilab

Hungry Turtles

Boyfriend and Girlfriend

Cobbler Slip

Snail