h/t Dina Harbour
Source: Sorry I’ve Been A Shitty Friend: A Multiple Choice Form Letter
Month: May 2017
Tilth
Robin Cracknell
Last year I decided to cut up a book called ‘Misunderstood’ by Florence Montgomery. I then rearranged pieces of it in a set of ten poems (artwork, really) that spoke to my situation at the time.
Robin Cracknell is a photographer and writer living in London, UK. His work has been widely published and exhibited including, notably, Eyemazing Magazine, The Michael Hoppen Gallery in London and a solo show at Sous Les Etoiles in New York. A selection of his notebooks is featured in the acclaimed 2014 Thames and Hudson publication, ‘Photographers’ Sketchbooks’ with further work from his ‘Childhood’ series in Thames and Hudson’s ‘Family Photography Now’ published in 2016.
Robin Cracknell’s work is in various private collections internationally as well as The National Portrait Gallery in London, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Fundacion Privada Sorigue, a museum of contemporary art in Lleida, Spain.
Life, Recycled
‘…we are all recycled. Other people’s genes.’ -Ayala Hecht
Grandfather: Roger Clark Kezar, photographed by grandson Maximilian
Source: Woman Recreates Portraits of Ancestors From Over the Last 100 Years
Lightning
Sam Florsheim
The image is a section of a plate glass sliding door after it was struck by lightning.
Sam Florsheim is a writer and photographer. He lives in Wisconsin.
©Sam Florsheim, 2014
Landfill Harmonic
Kids living in a slum built on a landfill in Paraguay create The Recycled Orchestra. Unable to afford traditional instruments they instead create all of their instruments from trash. When their story goes viral they tour the world, finally realizing their wildest dream: to play with the heavy metal band, Megadeth. The film is a […]
Windows of Water
Gint Aras at Liquid Ink (https://gint-aras.com/puddles/)
Source: Puddles
Tattooed Ladies
Originally posted on FLOW ART STATION: Ceramic Ladies Beautifully Covered with Tattoos by Jessica Harrison Scotland-based artist Jessica Harrison creates unique porcelain sculptures with interesting juxtapositions. In this new series, she applies full body tattoos to delicate women figurines. via Colossal
via Ceramic Ladies Beautifully Covered with Tattoos by Jessica Harrison — Be Like Water
Found Poetry: Subtitles
Robin Cracknell’s poetry is produced by randomly shuffling subtitles from foreign cinema. By allowing chance to decide how dialogue is rearranged, a narrative of a particular film becomes a completely different story; identities erased, scenes re-sequenced. Somehow, a story about X becomes a poem about Y. La Jetée (original dialogue randomly shuffled) One day she […]
Little Martha
The story is disputed, as stories often are. And a song without lyrics…well, the story will rush in and, with the help of its listener, tell itself, and it will be both different and the same to everyone who hears it. It can’t be bothered with the facts.
Or, rather, it will take facts and make with them whatever it pleases. Stories want to be told, and heard, and passed along and told and sung and heard again, and they’ll do whatever they have to do to ensure that, seeking out those who have the craft and skill to get them out into the world and nagging away at them until they surrender, sit down, hammer it out, set it loose. And as often as not, even as they take a circuitous and often ‘unfactual’ path, even as we might never get back to the strict truths underlying their origins or inspiration…
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Self-Portrait with Pot Lids
by Julibel Jordan
©Julibel Jordan, 2017
According to Julibel Jordan’s FB info, she is ‘a real human being.’ She is a teacher, writer, and consummate cat caretaker. She lives in Florida.
Recycled: Found Narratives 