This Loneliness, She Loves To Eat…I’m Lonely’s Lunch

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(Lonely’s Lunch by You Say Party! We Say Die!)

I volunteered to take some pictures of the CreateFixate event on Saturday.  And this image really jarred me, because it came just hours after I got the above album with a song so synchronous that it gave me shivers.  Anyway, the photo is by Joe Rubenstein and the entire SnapFlash event was as always…wonderful.  So many great local artists and an eclectic crowd gathered in parts of LA where you would never suspect it.  Surrounded by distribution centers, wholesalers, and all the industrial gears of this city.

I find it so odd that as much as we crave freedom it is still something we have to learn and work on day in day out.  Whether it’s the freedom to create, to dream or just to make your own decisions.  And the hardest thing is to maintain focus in light of a certain degree of abandon when you embrace that freedom. Which is where yoga comes in, ha, ha.  Yoga’s good for you people.  I can’t say it enough.  Do it. Do it.

I suspect that another activity which is considered universally liberating is swimming.  Floating. Any kind of underwater activity is so particular in the way that it silences the world.  All you have are your thoughts and the echo of your bodily functions, for better or for worse. I would LOOOVE to photograph underwater one day.  Zeina Holloway does it so well, don’t you think?

The last two are from Edward Weston & Andre Kertesz respectively.  Both have been feeding my image library for weeks as I continue to do my poking and probing through the history of photography….something I’ve never done before, never felt inclined to do, actually….and now that I have I don’t feel so lonely anymore.  To absorb this history has validated so many of my fantasies…