the desk dig

I cleaned off my refrigerator and desk last week in preparation for the coming school year. It was an archaeological experience. I found a food bag from Holland (no food inside). It made me think of the special way they fold them when you buy something there, like a bun or cookie: top edges all folded in. Not flattened at the top and folded over, like here. So it is possible even to fold a bag in another language.

vibes

ant hole and hot wheels

I miss film*

Eastman Kodak Company, 1971. *photos courtesy digital camera, is that progress or just irony.

"I will never make an accidental photograph"

'But still, why masks? Well, “the idea of a person, a photograph, say, of a young girl with a title ‘Rose Taylor’ or the title ‘Rose’ or no title at all becomes an entirely different thing,” Meatyard once said. “ ‘Rose Taylor’ is a specific person, whether you know her nor not. ‘Rose’ is more generalized and could be one of many Roses—many people. No title, it could be anybody.” And in the same way, a mask “serves as non-personalizing a person.”
And why would someone want to do that? In an essay on Meatyard’s work, the critic James Rhem quotes one of his sitters, Mary Browning Johnson: “He said he felt like everyone was connected, and when you use the mask, you take away the differences.” '

Via: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Ralph-Eugene-Meatyard-The-Man-Behind-the-Masks.html#ixzz25dmmeeyO

Shows are over for the summer, but for more Ralph Eugene Meatyard, please see:
http://www.peterfreemaninc.com/exhibitions/ralph-eugene-meatyard/
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/762.html

to miss kera potter

Say Kid, you have got nerve not to ans. Send me OH address will you. I lost that card with it on.

The stamp looks never cancelled.

the origami summer, invented dove with eggs