Me and WeeMee Part 2

Me

and my new little one...

Updated from this:

On Landscape

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape - the loneliness of it - the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show." 

"I think anything like that - which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone - people always feel is sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone?"

-Andrew Wyeth, Painter, American  1917-2009

Some advice from William Christenberry

To young photographers -
"find something you really love," build a "love affair" with your subject and "work on that"

-William Christenberry via Leslie K.Brown's Blog

Too Funny....

When I went to pick up the frames for my show - the following post it note was attached. It made me laugh and is now tacked up on my refrigerator..

       

                

                                   

Post it

            

           

   

Avatars

                                            

    Me

                          

                                            

     WeeMee

Rambling....

                                            

    

Funston & Moraga, 2005

Just now, while I was waiting for the milk to steam to 154 degrees for my latte. I had this thought - that making a picture, is like falling for one small thing, coercing everything else to work around it, and refusing to give it up.

Ludwig on Schubert via Sendak on Moyers

".. why do you like Schubert? You always sing Schubert." And he sort of faintly condemned Schubert.  "I mean, he's so simple. He's just a Viennese waltzes." And she [Christa Ludwig] smiled. And she said, "Schubert is so big, so delicate, but what he did was pick a form that looked so humble and quiet so that he could crawl into that form and explode emotionally, find every way of expressing every emotion ..." And I got very excited. And I wondered is it possible that's why I do children's books?

- Maurice Sendak on Now with Bill Moyers

Or photography...

I'm a Photographer not a Writer...

A long time ago I had this job. I lived in Sacramento and the best paying most flexible job in town for a college student was to work as a student assistant for the State of California. And unfortunately and fortunately for me the best paid of those jobs was at the California Dept of Corrections in the Public Relations office. My job was to answer questions from the public (off the record), write and photograph for Corrections News. I worked with three journalism students in a bull pen with light tables and Macs installed with all kinds of graphic programs and equipment. I am not sure I thought too much about the weirdness of the job at the time, I was young - 19.  I was happy to learn about layout, writing and to photograph. We got a lot of strange calls. After a while we started a quote of the day board. It made the time pass and we could laugh about the silly things we said and sometimes to deal with the truly bizarre situations of our job.

Lately I have been thinking of quotes. I am not the best writer. I write like I talk, in run-on sentences with tangents, it's wordy and my grammar isn't good. Writing about myself and especially my work I find difficult. I am just not sure I can sum it up. I am not sure it is totally intellectual, and I am not sure I want it to be. Instead of an Artist's statement I wonder if It wouldn't be best to string along a bunch of quotes. Maybe this one on why I don't want to write one at all....

  "It's supposed to be that ....examining every scrap of the brain, our emotions and what not, is supposed to advance something. Usually it depresses rather than advances. I think."

 -     Ned, from Act III, It's Never Over, This American Life #314