(Not so) simply bronze

So here we are at Cabrillo College, Spring semester - working the bronzes.

Bridal World

A few weeks ago I found a sign in Dolores Park that someone had discarded. It was an advertisement and read: "BRIDE EXPO - Crowne Plaza, Redondo - Sunday Feb. 20". It was the type of sign with a pointed piece of wood on one end that could be planted in the ground. The sign was bright pink, and the idea that an expo could be dedicated to weddings made me smile. I took the sign home - after parading around with it on Valencia Street, holding it above my head as people do in demonstrations, or to announce the imminent end of the world.

Later, I decided to place the sign in a context free of any reference to the human world - let alone the world of brides. There are some dunes and a forest near my house, so that's where I took the sign. The pictures are primarily a study. The project is meant to be a physical and visual encounter with the actual sign (people hike or run through this forest).

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Bridal World tackles several questions in my mind. There is the overload of messages, such as advertisements of this and many other types, that we run into everywhere we are - except perhaps in forests, or the ocean... or the moon. It occurred to me that in the same way we question whether a tree falling in a forest really falls if no one is there to see it, what message can advertisement offer if no one is there to experience it? The other relates to the content itself - the bridal institution, a topic so foreign to a forest, to the "natural world". How natural is it to get married? Is it not another social construct? - the result of what my teachers at the Sorbonne called "objectivation", a process, if I recall somewhat correctly, by which spontaneous actions and beliefs become structured, institutionalized, and are given the power to sanction.

george

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i.tox (hagakure)

(chapter7 - click pic twice + F11 for full screen)

(part1: constellation10/11)

(photography courtesy Kathryn Krieger)

&found

ɥsǝɹɟ

In Geist (pause*)

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some folks believe in spirits, others in therapy. others, yet, in both. and that's what we have here: in this session of In Treatment, Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest sit facing each-other. the screen-shot is of a *paused cut from one character to the other. through the simultaneous presence, or co-emergence of faces in the paused view, the characters overlap for a fraction of time. who exactly is fading, in this frozen moment, is unclear. Byrne appears to be dozing off, while an ethereal, perhaps ghostly Wiest emanates from him, or enters him. one body, one mind.

it's probably good not to get too much in a patient's head - or a therapist's.

//boundaries, cabrones!//

rinpoche strikes again

"seemingly endless banter
as giant rubber lips
uncover a twilight moon"

twelve-foot mystery (K)

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pussy-hol*2

DATUM

pussyhole part 1

(pyramid lake 2)

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go'go'n'callMe2

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never-happened

b there

this sees

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4th time around x 6 videos (Bob Dylan MSI Camp @ 4th of Juplaya)

drivin' around on Cinco de Playo

Bob sings "4th time around"
tryin' to exit the dust
"fill up your shoe and bring it to you"

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Visions of Space (on back of fish truck that loads / while conscience explodes)

*Bob Dylan Mental Sanity Institute Camp @ JuPlaya*

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