EATING THE ABSTRACTION

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Lifting.

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Dear friends are bravely departing their homes for far-off lands, and blessed am I for having spent this past weekend with them, only moments before their bags and boxes are prepared for their passage. (Did I tell you how much I'll miss you?) There may seem to be a certain amount of pretension in title and in imagery, but I beseech you to trust me. When we three (1, 2, 3) converged, the

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There is a great deal that, as with any medium, I find quite limiting when it comes to photography, and particularly when it comes to sharing photography online. So inundated are we, perpetually, with the imagery & creations of the countless members of the globe, that I feel there can be a bit of a numbing effect on the experience of viewing. I find this often happening with myself, as I am

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It's been almost a year now since my last visit to my old darkroom. It would be near impossible for me to articulate all that that space meant to me and my heart. Being in that space awakened a drive and curiosity in me that I hadn't felt for a long while; perhaps since childhood. Here, let me describe it to you. In the middle of the city, and in the basement of a YWCA built in the late 1800'

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The praisers of women in their proud and beautiful poems, Naming the grave mouth and the hair and the eyes, Boasted those they loved should be forever remembered: These were lies. The words sound but the face in the Istrian sun is forgotten. The poet speaks but to her dead ears no more. The sleek throat is gone--and the breast that was troubled to listen: Shadow from door. Therefore I will not

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I have (tentatively) decided to no longer sell my prints on Etsy. I will, however, continue to welcome requests for prints, and you can send those requests to me via hugeancestor@gmail.com. Thanks to all past and future patrons; your support is profoundly helpful and needed.

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Stumbled upon this video this evening; what a surprise to find this gorgeous photograph that dear Ali shot of me for Ovate paired with it. A lovely end to my evening playlist. Good night.

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Neptune is the next film project by my friends at Last House. It is a profoundly beautiful story, and I hope that you will take a moment to watch this teaser and consider donating what you are able, however meager that may be, to help see it to fruition. These are good, intelligent folk, massively creatively endowed. For more details on the project, and to donate, please visit here. Oh, and

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"Baptism, Cross, and descent into the darkness of the underworld constitute the mystery of the divine destruction from which new life surges, the night from which new day dawns." -Hugo Rahner, The Christian Mystery and the Pagan Mysteries [1944]

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This has been a long year, trying to my health and to my heart, and as some strange sense is imparted to me of a veil and a burden lifting, of a hapless tumbling rebirth, I find myself wanting to mark this year with some sort of stone or memorial, and to share it with an honesty that in the past has made me feel far too vulnerable. It is these passages in life, however, that inform our art

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This is a series that has been on my mind for well over a year, taking different forms in my sketchbook, playing with different materials, dimensions, shapes, and meaning. It required a great deal of planning, measuring & mathematics before I could begin construction, and as I plotted, it continued to reinvent itself. Strange that these mirrors have traveled with me while my mind pondered,

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Please--someday.

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And everything. Thank you Aela.

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Only across the road. Thank you, A.S. & C.H.

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I have always been quite enamored with the beauty of Edwardian greenhouses, so I felt quite blessed to spend the afternoon of my birthday within one with dear friends. Catalogued specimens, both animate and inanimate somehow always seem the best of company. Thank you, A.S. & C.H. View another perspective here.

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Tuesday.

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Les princes n'ont point d'yeux pour voir ces grand's merveilles, Leurs mains ne servent plus qu' à nous persécuter . . . (Agrippa D' Aubigné: À Dieu) The storm that trickles its long March thunderclaps, its hail, onto the stiff leaves of the magnolia tree; (sounds of shaking crystal which startle you in your nest of sleep; and the gold snuffed on the mahogany, on the backs of the bound books,

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If I've taste, it's not alone For the earth and stones, Rocks, coal, iron, air That's my daily fare. Turn my hungers, hungers browse On the field of sound, Suck up bindweed's gay venom Along the ground. Eat the pebbles that one breaks, Churches' old stones; Gravel of ancient deluge taste, And loaves scattered in grey brakes. *** Howling underneath the leaves The wolf spits out the

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My home. Age and decay in our back hallway.

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...just a craven lust-driven artist Channelling confusion and fear Into a sickly limp repetitive craft? (Full lyrics here.)

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Once there was a shock that left behind a long, shimmering comet tail. It keeps us inside. It makes the TV pictures snowy. It settles in cold drops on the telephone wires. One can still go slowly on skis in the winter sun through brush where a few leaves hang on. They resemble pages torn from old telephone directories. Names swallowed by the cold. It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat

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I now believe that television itself, the medium of sitting in front of a magic box that pulses images at us endlessly, the act of watching TV, per se, is mind crushing. It is soul deadening, dehumanizing, soporific in a poisonous way, ultimately brutalizing. It is, simply put so you cannot mistake my meaning, a bad thing. We need never fear Orwell's 1984, because it's here, with us now, nearly a

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This fall I helped with a little bit of art direction on a film project (seen above) that my friend Derek Kimball was commissioned to do for the annual horror film festival Damnationland in Maine, a series of vignettes to introduce and transition between the pieces made by various Maine filmmakers. D is a very old and dear friend of mine and my husband's, and my husband has scored two of his

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Second verse, same as the first.

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...swiftly over the board and gently swept all the pieces into a heap; and, meditatively with an artist's skill, made up a new game of the same pieces with quite other groupings, relationships and entanglements. The second game had an affinity with the first, it was the same world built of the same material, but the key was different, the time changed, the motif was differently given out and the

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This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. If anyone reading this is knowledgeable about recording at all, I would love to know your thoughts on how the vocals might have been recorded...what kind of room? what kind of microphone? It is perfection.

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What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realization of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!What is the artistic sense in you? What but the One Channel always open to you through which this Light flows freely to enkindle you (and the world through you) with flowers of inexhaustible fervour and flame?And you set up against That

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A weekend experiment, prompted by a forthcoming project by a friend whose work, mind and heart I greatly admire. A gorgeous weekend to sit cross-legged under the trees, playing with sunlight, mirrors, prisms and film. More from the series can be found here. That all being said, may I admit that I am unbearably bored by my art? Perhaps "bored" is an unfortunate and inaccurate choice of word...

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I wish that I were able to dig up an appropriate title for these, portraits of an artist I admired from afar who has since become one of my most trusted friends, but I fear that I am still learning how to properly articulate my love for those most dear. I always seem to fall short, and I often fear that those who mean the most to me won't ever get a sense of the depth and nature of my feelings

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Now watching.

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20% off prints and all else. Enter coupon code "MORTUI" upon checkout to receive the discount. Happy Halloween all. http://www.etsy.com/shop/OfAMirrorAndABell

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My first foray into doll-making. I have needed to create this magic(k)al piece for the purpose of protection and manifestation of creative will. Hand-sewn and hand-painted, with a homemade velvet skirt and golden-threaded neckpiece. Yet to be fulfilled is a proper home with talismans to protect she and I while sleeping, and proper disguises for nighttime travels. There are always projects to

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I have been in want of a space set for tarot meditation, as certain cards have themes and symbols that require my attention, so I decided to set about creating some proper shrines. The first I created is at top, which ended up donning a pattern that reminds me of both Latin American and Russian folk art. (I'm quite fond of both.) The card in this case is simply attached with some putty...

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Oh, Yma, please find me in dreams.

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<p>&amp;amp;amp;nbsp;</p> Soundtrack to the Godmaker series.

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An inspiring life.

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Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it. Strike that, reverse it.

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RECOMMENDED I never would have expected Stockhausen to be such a charismatic lecturer.

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It was my intention to write a bit about this series after shooting it in July. It is born from a concept that I have been meditating on for the past year or so, made flesh after a number of months of planning and constructing the costume, which came to rest upon the shoulders and crown of my dearest love and muse, Glenna. It was a beautiful day, which I hope to always remember, spent with women

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Best viewed without sound.

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...in being an artist, Goldmund saw the possibility of reconciling his deepest contradictions, or at aleast of expressing newly and magnificently the split in his nature. But art was not just a gift. It could not be had for nothing; it cost a great deal; it demanded sacrifices. For over three years Goldmund sacrificed his most essential need, the thing he needed most next to desire and love: his

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I had a dream: I saw a large white building several storeys high which looked like a University. It was full of students; most of them were studying the exact or applied sciences, engineering or physics. They all seemed to be using their knowledge to achieve tangible results; they were applying it automatically without a thought to the significance of what they were doing. They were untroubled by

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The whip whistled through the air; the horses set off, breathing hard. They moved with high, smooth paces. Their hoofs touched the ground gently and silently. The bells around their necks played a strange tune in the damp air. In the gaps between the clouds the stars gazed down at the earth like gleaming eyes emerging from a mass of coagulated blood. A wonderful sense of tranquility pervaded my

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This album currently on loop in our home.

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Darkroom prints of my friend Ali and her love, in the still woods behind Courtney's home. Neither my digital camera nor my scanner seem to capture the reality of these prints, so sadly much is compromised in the viewing. Those that I am willing to part with may find themselves in my shop.

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Baby male and female mice were produced from dual fathers, and it may be possible to produce non-cloned mice from a single mouse father. The circadian rhythms of mice are permanently affected by the season in which they were born. The excessive cleanliness of modern life may encourage depression by killing off beneficial bacteria. Neurotic newlyweds who have sex frequently are as happy as

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Of A Mirror And A Bell is the title of a Japanese ghost story, as translated and told by Lafcadio Hearn around the turn of the last century in his collection Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the tale, a monastery in a remote village, in an effort to collect bronze enough to create a bell for their campus, requests that the local women donate their old bronze mirrors for

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I would like to know what it feels like to join in this ecstatic form of prayer. I would also like some of the food that they're passing around.

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Experimenting with sewing and painting on my test strips.

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More darkroom work from a series that may, as New Myths, continue indefinitely. More here.

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One of the most astonishingly wonderful films I have ever seen. Watch it in full on UBUWEB.

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I have created a shop on Etsy to sell my original prints and artwork. I have been spending many hours in the darkroom creating these portraits of quartz crystals, and have a few for sale at this time. I hope to be adding more of the images that you see on my flickr account soon. I'd be most flattered if you took a look.

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More here and here.

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More here

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DJ: Then what's the question? JM sighs: What indeed? Or does it all boil down to this: Resistance--Nature's gift to man--What form will it assume in Paradise?

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ANOTHER YEAR INTO MY SATURN RETURN

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Omnivore is Glenna Van Nostrand, my dear friend and subject of most of my New Myths photographic series. She circuit bends telephones to create custom microphones, which she runs through a loop station and then often into antique radio cabinets which she customizes into amplifiers. She and I have a similar approach, as she also creates layered acapella compositions, but with an aesthetic that

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A glimpse into a room in which much of my creative energy is spent. I have only recently finished organizing and arranging this space, and it will surely yet evolve, but I am grateful to be anchored here. It is a hopeful way to start a new year. See some much much more lovely captures of my home on Courtney's blog here. Pictured: Shelf of treasures including antique and original stereocards, a

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Rang in the new year with some of my favorite ladies; hanging from trees, marching through brambles, soaking up magic. I am most grateful. See more of the day by Courtney here, and by Ali here and here. It will, unfortunately, be a few weeks until my film from the day will be ready to share.Both images above are of me, by Courtney Brooke

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9.9.10LAST NIGHT I DREAMT THAT I WAS STANDING OUTSIDE OF THE GATES OF HEAVEN. LARGE NUMBERS OF US AWAITED TO BE GIVEN THE DIRECTION—THOSE DESTINED FOR HELL INTO ONE GROUP, THOSE TO ENTER THE GATES OF HEAVEN IN ANOTHER. I WAS USHERED INTO THE GROUP THAT WAS BEING LED TO HEAVEN. IT WAS A FAIRLY SMOOTH OPERATION; A DAILY OCCURRENCE, A WELL-PRACTICED ROUTINE. WE FOLLOWED OUR USHER, WHO WALKED

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Ongoing series, marker on Moleskine

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The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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It is a vision of numbers. We are going toward the Spirit. There's no doubt about it, an oracle, I tell you. I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I'd rather remain silent.photo by val telberg

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EVERYTHING

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The heavy bear who goes with me,A manifold honey to smear his face,Clumsy and lumbering here and there,The central ton of every place,The hungry beating brutish oneIn love with candy, anger, and sleep,Crazy factotum, dishevelling all,Climbs the building, kicks the football,Boxes his brother in the hate-ridden city.Breathing at my side, that heavy animal,That heavy bear who sleeps with me,Howls in

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