carlagirl photo.

practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

going around and coming around

Great news—my girl Kelly found a job, my girl Zoe has been chosen to represent in the Whitney Biennial, I started making photographs in earnest again, and I get to work only 4 miles from my house—no more driving (though I will miss the compellingly terrible Andrea Lewis and the sublimely crazy Dennis Bernstein)! They [...]

you know your job is, um, slow when…

…getting a cup of tea constitutes something exciting to do. Walk to the kitchen, select the bag, place in glass, pour hot water, walk back, sip…

positive energy

My dear friends’ infant son is having open heart surgery tomorrow, and they sent this plea out to their friends, and I figured it couldn’t hurt to ask a few more folks:
Tomorrow (8 a.m. – 2 p.m. PST)…Whatever it is that you do that feeds your spirit—meditate, chant,pray, run, ride, walk, work, climb, cook, garden, [...]

this is when i love art (and this is when I don’t)

Check out Bill Fisher and Richard Lou’s “Missing Stereotypes” project about runaway race-baiter Jennifer Wilbanks @ http://billfisher.dreamhost.com/nohate.html. It’s smart work that was censored courtesy of friends of the Wilbanks family. A comment on their site excerpted from a letter to the Gainseville Times:
I guess racism, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Wow. Yeah, [...]

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    • Palimpsest: New Journal Announcement and CFP September 2, 2010
      Website and Submission Guidelines Information: www.vanderbilt.edu/aframst/palimpsest Inquiries: PalimpsestJournal@vanderbilt.edu Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their commu […]
    • CFS: Photobook!! The Photographer and the Self-Published Book September 2, 2010
      I’m writing to request you spread the word regarding our November 18 – December 19 exhibition, PHOTOBOOK!! It’s our first annual juried photobooks show. I’m a true believer in the photobook to bring one’s work to the attention of the public. I think it’s a natural for the end of the [...] […]
    • Annual powerHouse Arena Book and Tag Sale July 28 – September 6 September 2, 2010
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